[sane-devel] umax 1220P - cabling issue?

[sane at bob-n.com]

On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, stef wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 08:08:37PM -0600, sane at bob-n.com wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Sat, 15 Dec 2001 sane at bob-n.com wrote:
> > 
> > > > 	One thing that may be worth trying, is to build the backend with no ppdev
> > > > support (by undefining HAVE_LINUX_PPDEV_H in include/sane/config.h). The backend will
> > > > fall back to direct I/O and so will have to be run with root's priviledges.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > OK, I'll give this a shot.
> > 
> > 
> > Results were less than optimal:
> > 
> > #  /usr/local/src/sane-backends-1.0.6/tools/umax_pp -p -t 255
> > [sanei_debug] Setting debug level of umax_pp_low to 255.
> > [umax_pp_low] *** Direct I/O or ppdev unavailable, giving up ***
> > failed to gain direct acces to port 0x378!
> > 
> > 
> 	
> 	This message means that no direct I/O nor ppdev support was built in.
> 
> 	If you are using CVS version, you'll to add '--enable-directio' to configure
> option to allow direct I/O.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 	Stef


No, I was using the sane-backends-1.06 downloaded as a part of
a tar.gz.  Should I still ./configure with --enable-directio?

- Bob Niederman