[sane-devel] Fujitsu USB scanner support working!

[Karl Heinz Kremer]

I'm pretty sure that I "touched" the documentation. Maybe I forgot to
merge my changes back. I'll take a look.

Karl Heinz


Till Kamppeter said:
> Yes, simply "usb" works. Can you mention this in the man page and in the
>  comments of the config file? They seem to be untouched since the time
> before this new feature was introduced.
>
> Thank you.
>
>     Till
>
>
> Karl Heinz Kremer wrote:
>> There is a bug in the backend. YOu have to use decimal value instead
>> of hex values. But for all known scanners (and the 2450 is known in
>> the latest version of the backend) you don't have to specify the
>> vendor / product ID. You can just put a line "usb" into the config
>> file, and the backend will use libusb to search for all known devices.
>>
>> Karl Heinz
>>
>> Till Kamppeter said:
>>
>>>Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote:
>>>
>>>>I think it's ok. The epson backend checks for "usb vendor product"
>>>> and calls sanei_usb_attach_matching_devices if it find such a line.
>>>> Otherwise it checks for "usb" and calls attach for the device name.
>>>> If it's not "usb", it calls
>>>> sanei_config_attach_matching_devices(line, attach_one);
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>Are you sure that the "epson" backend understands something other than
>>> fixed devices? I have tried
>>>
>>>usb 0x04b8 0x0112
>>>
>>>for my Epson Perfection 2450 and the "epson" backend did not find it.
>>> The only way to get this scanner working is to use a fixed address as
>>>
>>>usb /dev/usb/scanner1
>>>
>>>    Till
>>>
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