[sane-devel] Using "scanimage" under Gentoo

[Louis Lagendijk]

On Thu, 2019-12-19 at 19:37 +0100, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
> 
> 
> That's the old story  that my router is advertizing several addresses
> to
> "scanimage" which all but the last  aren't scanners at all.   And
> every-
> time "scanimage"  waits five seconds  for the request to time
> out.  So I
> set the timeout to only 0.1 seconds for all devices EXCEPT my
> scanner.
> 
> Sincerely,
>   Rainer
> 
If you use a recent sane git version, you can disable auto-detection by
adding
auto_detection=no
in your pixma.conf file

BR, Louis