[sane-devel] Bug in backend/geniusvp2_parport.c

[Richard Hitt]

Hi, sane-devel

In the subject source module, in function sane_geniusvp2_parport_open(), 
a test for PARPORT_MODE_EPP fails and as a result sane does not find my 
Genius ColorPage-Vivid Pro II scanner.   When this test is commented 
out, and the function returns 0, my scanner works fine and I am very happy.

I was helped greatly along this path by sadleder on the freenode irc 
channel #sane.

I tried and failed to establish an account on 
https://alioth.debian.org/account/login.php (rbh00).  My cookie mode is 
to manually set cookies for this session only, under firefox; it 
appeared that a cookie problem was inhibiting me from logging on; but 
the message did not say what cookie domain name was at issue, and I 
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I'd be happy to answer questions you may have and to try things you may 
suggest.  My system is Fedora 9 with sane version 
sane-backends-1.0.19-10.fc9, but to get the geniusvp2_parport shared 
object I had to use a mandrake source rpm, sane-1.0.15-7mdk.src.rpm.  I 
went into its sane.spec file and made up for missing mklibname macros 
and missing XFree86-devel build-dependency; I did "make"; and I copied 
the resulting shared object libsane-geniusvp2.so.1.0.15 and its two 
symlinks from backend/.libs to /usr/lib/sane.  I did make a special 
kernel, setting CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_FIFO and CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_SUPERIO to y.

Richard Hitt    rbh00 at netcom.com