[sane-devel] Question on SCSI-scanners

2009-01-07 Thread abel deuring
On 06.01.2009 21:00, Dieter Jurzitza wrote: > Dear listmembers, > dear Abel, > dear Allan, > thanks for the pointers. First of all, a "grep processor" within the > desc-files results in nothing. I personally do not see a way how to extract > this information from the desc-files, but maybe (hopefu

[sane-devel] Question on SCSI-scanners

2009-01-06 Thread Dieter Jurzitza
Dear Allan, so, if I take your statement there is still one problem. "lshal" tells me that my scanner is called "C7670A", the printing on it's top matches with the hp.desc file and says "ScanJet 6350C". Any location within sane to match the scsi-identifier to the actual devicename? Otherwise m

[sane-devel] Question on SCSI-scanners

2009-01-06 Thread Dieter Jurzitza
Dear listmembers, dear Abel, dear Allan, thanks for the pointers. First of all, a "grep processor" within the desc-files results in nothing. I personally do not see a way how to extract this information from the desc-files, but maybe (hopefully!) I overlooked something. For better explanation:

[sane-devel] Question on SCSI-scanners

2009-01-06 Thread abel deuring
On 06.01.2009 17:30, Dieter Jurzitza wrote: > Dear listmembers, > prior to doing a "deep down" search on my own, here's a question someone > might > be able to answer to me: > > The move in openSUSE from "conventional" permission distribution to hal > recently started caused issues with SCSI s

[sane-devel] Question on SCSI-scanners

2009-01-06 Thread Dieter Jurzitza
Dear listmembers, prior to doing a "deep down" search on my own, here's a question someone might be able to answer to me: The move in openSUSE from "conventional" permission distribution to hal recently started caused issues with SCSI scanners. By the help of the hal-developers I found a workar

[sane-devel] Question on SCSI-scanners

2009-01-06 Thread m. allan noah
So, long story short, all you need is a list of all the machines that say they are 'processor'? It was a short-lived hack, and none of those are made anymore, AFAIK, so your list will be finite and short. IIRC- every machine supported by the hp backend calls itself a processor, and some (all?) of

[sane-devel] Question on SCSI-scanners

2009-01-06 Thread m. allan noah
Are you asking if there is a way to produce a list of all machines which call themselves a 'scanner' and which call themselves a 'processor'? allan On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Dieter Jurzitza wrote: > Dear listmembers, > prior to doing a "deep down" search on my own, here's a question someo