[sane-devel] Parallel port directio

[Ralph Little]

Hi,
I have been testing the plustek_pp driver with a machine that I have.

I was surprised to find that the Ubuntu package that I have uses the 
configure option --enable-parport-directio.
This causes the libieee1284 library use in sanei_pp to be disabled, even 
though libieee1284-3-dev is listed as a dependency.

Is there any reason why we would do this in general?

If I test with libieee1284 enabled, it works fine and device names are a 
bit more sane (i.e. for parport0).
Also, access is available here when a member of the lp group. Don't need 
to be root.

Cheers,
Ralph