[sane-devel] Re: mac osx w/ epson backend status

[rcharlet at SonicWALL.com]

Thank you for the suggestion. I'll try to get some time this weekend to investigate this direction and give my results back to the list.


Ricky



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Beat Birkhofer [mailto:beat.birkhofer at ilw.agrl.ethz.ch]
> Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 1:35 AM
> To: SANE development mailing list
> Subject: [sane-devel] Re: mac osx w/ epson backend status
> 
> 
> >	I hope to first get a definitive answer where this 
> thread belongs, to
> >sane-devl or to libusb-devel.
> 
> Good question.
> 
> >   o What reports of mac osx success with sane have been made?
> 
> I have the plustek backend running but I had to replace the child 
> process with a pthread. This is currently no-good.
> 
> The epson backend doesn't fork (according grep) thus it 
> should work in theory.
> 
> >   o What reports of success with libusb w/ mac osx have been made?
> 
> If there's a pipe-stall on bulk write the libusb returns an error. 
> Both, libusb and sane, don't try to clear the pipe stall (plustek 
> backend). It's quite easy to find out by placing additional debugging 
> logs in the libusb code.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Beat H.
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