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

Rene Rebe rene at exactcode.de
Fri May 22 14:10:59 UTC 2009


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,  <emmanuel at engelhart.org> wrote:
>> In http://git.debian.org/?p=sane/sane-backends.git;a=blob;f=backend/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 gmail.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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