[sane-devel] [AVISION 6080E] Who is responsible for libsane.fdi?

[emmanuel at engelhart.org]

Thank you both for your quick reaction.
The Avision FB6080E is a great scanner and I wait the full Linux support to advertise it to my neighborhood.
Emmanuel

 Le ven 22/05/09 16:10, "Rene Rebe" rene at exactcode.de a écrit:
> Yeah, noticed.
> 
> I'll have to try the new git  repository. Though one could copy the ID
> to the .desc manually, but I'll really try to auto-update it timely.
> 
> On 22.05.2009, at 16:05, m. allan noah wrote:
> 
> > We'll have to ask Rene (cc'd) to update the .desc-
> the script is
> external to sane...
> >
> > allan
> >
> > On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 9:54 AM,  <emmanu
> el at engelhart.org> wrote:
>> In http://git.debian.org/?p=sane/sane-backends.git;a=blob;f=backen
> d/avision.c;h=da5bcccd9d592505c2811648c054d05c10a8237f;hb=HEAD
>>>
> >> there is:
> >>
> >>  537     { NULL, NULL,
> >>  538       0x0638, 0x0a82,
> >>  539       "Avision", "FB6080E",
> >>  540      
> AV_NON_INTERLACED_DUPLEX_300},
>>  541     /* comment="1 pass, 1200 dpi, A3 -
> duplex! - zero edge!" */
>>  542     /* status="complete" */
> >>
> >> So it's inside... and more pragmaticaly... it
> works by me :)
>>
> >> Maybe someone has to run by hand a script to
> generate a new version  
>> of avision.desc?
> >>
> >> Emmanuel
> >>
> >>  Le ven 22/05/09 15:49, "m. allan noah" kitno455 at g
> mail.com a écrit:
>>> I assume it is an oversight. The top of the
> file says it is  
>>> generated
> >>> from avision.c, is the 6080
> there?
>>>
> >>> allan
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 9:44 AM, 
> <emmanu
>>> el at engelhart
> .org> wrote:
>>> Great, but the Avision 6080E is not there.
> Is that
>>> simply an oversight or there is another
> reason?
>>> Emmanuel
> >>>>
> >>>>  Le ven 22/05/09 15:38, "m. allan noah"
> kitno455 at g
>>> mail.com a écrit:
> >>>> you are somehow looking at an old
> version, try
>>> this:
> >>>>
> >>>>> http://git.debian.org/?p=sane/sane-backends.git;a=blob;f=doc/de
> 
>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>> scriptions/ 
> >>>
> avision.desc;h=ae43758c1c8fd3a23fc34e2f366ee57e68b7d9e2;hb=HEAD
>>>>> allan
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 9:29
> AM,
>>>  <emmanu
> >>>> el at engelhart
> 
>>> .org> wrote:
> >>>> Do you mean this .desc file:
> >>>>>> http://git.debian.org/?p=sane/sane-backends.git;a=blob_plain;f=
> 
>>>>
> >>>>> backend/avision.desc
> >>>>>> ... but I see nothing about the
> vendor_id
>>> nor
> >>>> product_id.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> The trunk code supports this
> scanner since
>>> Aug.
> >>>> 2008. See
> >>>>> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2008-August
> 
>>>>
> >>>>> /022673.html
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Emmanuel
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>  Le ven 22/05/09 15:00, "m.
> allan noah"
>>> kitno455 at g
> >>>> mail.com a écrit:
> >>>>>> the fdi files are the bailiwick
> of the
>>> distro,
> >>>> but we give them the
> >>>>>> raw materials to work from. If
> your machine
>>> is
> >>>> not listed in our .desc
> >>>>>> files, the distro won't
> know
>>> about
> >>>> it.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> allan
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at
> 6:47
>>> AM,
> >>>>  <emmanu
> >>>>>> el at engelhart
> 
>>>
> >>>> .org> wrote:
> >>>>>>  Hi,
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> I have an Ubuntu Jaunty
> and I have
>>> reported
> >>>> two
> >>>>>> times a problem with
> the
>>>>> libsane.fdi:
> >>>>>> * https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hal/+bug/378401 to  
>>>>>> the sane-backends
> package
>>>>> * https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sane-backends/+bug/28
> 
>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>> 0909 to the HAL
> package
>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> But I'm not sure to do
> it in
>>> the
> >>>> right
> >>>>>> way.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> The issue seems for me
> pretty easy
>>> to patch
> >>>> : the
> >>>>>> scanner works currently only as
> root.
>>> The
> >>>> problem seems to come from
> >>>>>> libsane.fdi because the AVISION
> 6080E in
>>> not
> >>>> inside. Patching it like
> >>>>>> described in the bug report
> 280909 and
>>> it
> >>>> works.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> So, do I do
> something
>>> wrong?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Regards
> >>>>>>>> Emmanuel
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> --
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>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> --
> >>>>>>> "The truth is an offense,
> but not
>>> a
> >>>> sin"
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> --
> >>>>> "The truth is an offense, but not
> a
>>> sin"
> >>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> "The truth is an offense, but not a
> sin"
>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > -- 
> > "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
> 
> -- 
> René Rebe - ExactCODE GmbH - Europe, Germany, Berlin
> http://exactcode.de | http://t2-project.org |
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