[sane-devel] Fwd: Re: Canon Pixma TS5150- no WIFI-connection

[thierryh at vivaldi.net]

Le 2024-05-23 05:23, Johannes Meixner a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> On 2024-05-23 06:36, ThierryFR via sane-devel wrote:
>> Lastly, for escl, which is not present in dll.conf, it's a choice
>> made by the Maintair of your distribution.
> ...
>> Le 2024-05-22 18:10, Wolfram Heider a écrit :
>>> D...d, you are right, Thierry. "escl" does the trick.
> ...
>>> couldn't the dll.conf be delivered with the escl preactivated
>>> like it comes with an activated net?
>>> 
>>> my OS version Leap 15.5
> 
> In my /etc/sane.d/dll.conf on my openSUSE Leap 15.5 system
> the 'net' backend is not activated.
> 
> In general on openSUSE /etc/sane.d/dll.conf is provided
> with no preactivated backend because I had to "fix" user issues
> because of conflicts between some backends that had been
> activated at the same time.
> 
> I vaguely remember one particular case where more than one backend
> works for the same scanner model: the various 'epson*' backends
> from sane-backends versus 'epkowa' from Epson's 'iscan' software.
> 
> Because I do not want having to "fix" user issues who complain
> at openSUSE that we messed up things and because I cannot know
> which conflicts there might be between all those SANE backends
> including external (i.e. third party software) backends,
> the only way out for me is to have by default all backends
> in /etc/sane.d/dll.conf deactivated (with a leading '#' character)
> to make it more clear to the user which backend(s) he deliberately
> activated so that the user has at least a chance to understand
> what went wrong behind the surface when "all of a sudden"
> his scanner behaves strange or does no longer work at all.
> 
> I didn't follow recent SANE backends software development
> so perhaps nowadays there is sufficient SANE backends conflicts
> detection implemented (in particular also for external backends)
> so that all backends in /etc/sane.d/dll.conf could be active by
> default?
> 
Hi

I can confirm that I've had quite a few problems with conflicts on 
Ordissimo, but that was a long time ago.
Currently all backends are activated, including native backends as well 
as external backends, espon, brother, samsung, ect...

Cheers

Thierry
> 
> Kind Regards
> Johannes Meixner