[sane-devel] Problem with Iscan version iscan-2.19.0-4.c2

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

russbucket <russbucket at nwi.net> writes:

> On Tuesday 19 May 2009 12:52:44 am Johannes Meixner wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On May 14 07:37 russbucket wrote (shortened):
>> > ... If I go into YaST -->hardware-->scanner I
>> > see the two scanners. It will not let me delete the unconfigured one.
>>
>> FYI regarding this particular issue, see
>> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220276
>>
>> An entry for an autodetected scanner (which is not yet configured)
>> cannot be deleted and YaST shows therefore the popup message:
>> "Delete Not Possible
>>   It is only possible to edit a detected scanner."

Hmm, sounds very oxymoronic.  Scanner is autodetected but you can only
edit detected scanners.  How is autodetected different from detected ;-)

>> Kind Regards
>> Johannes Meixner
> Thanks, I understand what the bug says and its marked RESOLVED, but how is 
> not shown.

It does, the ticket says Resolution: WONTFIX.

> My problem is I use Iscan (epkowa) and VirtualBox. Both want 50-
> udev-default rule configured differently. VBox wants the usb device nodes 
> section disabled, (do by copying the rule from /lib/udev/rules.d to 
> /etc/udev/rules.d and then editing the rule in /etc/udrv/rules.d to disable 
> the usb device nodes section. Vbox will then detect all usb devices correctly. 
> See discussion under http://forums.opensuse.org/applications/412870-
> virtualbox-usb-grey.html.

Sounds more like a problem with VirtualBox than with our iscan packages.
Our iscan packages should have generated a
/etc/udev/rules.d/55-iscan.rules file based on what I see in the
sane-backends-1.0.19-99.1.i586.rpm package for openSUSE 11.1.

> Epkowa wants it enabled with slightly different root 
> permissions 9664){see iscan rule in /etc/udev/rules.d - probably need Iscan 
> installed, Not Iscan free, but version from AVASYA website}.

Our iscan packages try very hard to generate a udev rules file that uses
the same stanza's as the distributions udev rules file for libsane (or
sane-backends).  
FWIW, it's AVASYS, not AVASYA.

> Vbox works 
> perfectly if both the above rule has usb-device nodes disabled and fstab usbfs 
> disabled. If both mentioned changes are inabled, Iscan work from both root and 
> user. If just fstab enable, iscan works only as root, but not user. In these 
> two cases VirtualBox does not detect usb devices correctly.

So, that makes it a VirtualBox issue as far as I'm concerned.

Hope this helps,
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