[sane-devel] Mac OS X - xsane and Microtek Scanmaker II

David B Brown david_b_brown@mac.com
Tue, 2 Sep 2003 11:41:08 +0100


You caught me on that one ;-)


Cheers

David


On Tuesday, September 2, 2003, at 10:25 AM, abel deuring wrote:

> Guy Brooker wrote:
>>
>> On 2/9/03 10:29 am, "David B Brown" <david_b_brown@mac.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Ok,
>>>
>>> so that worked
>>>
>>>
>>> G4:src/sane-backends-1.0.12/backend] dave% scanimage -L
>>> [sanei_debug] Setting debug level of sanei_scsi to 6.
>>> [sanei_scsi] sanei_scsi_open: device name /dev/scanner is not valid
>>
>> That is odd, /dev/scanner doesn't exist on OS X, I'm not sure why 
>> scanimage
>> is repeatedly trying this. I don't see that effect with my EPSON 
>> scanner.
>>
>> Mattias, Abel, any idea why /dev/scanner is being accessed ?
>
>
> The default version of microtek.conf contains the line "/dev/scanner".
> Since the the MacOS part of sanei_scsi.c supports the "find devices"
> logic, the line can be commented out (or tremoved). OTOH, it does not 
> do
> any harm, I think.
>
> cheers
> Abel