all three problems solved: http://www.pcausa.com/Utilities/UsbSnoop/
allan On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 3:16 PM, <kilgota at banach.math.auburn.edu> wrote: > > I have had some problems recently with usbsnoop (sniff-bin-1.8) which I wonder > if anyone else has encountered and, if so, whether any workarounds are known: > > 1. Contents of the window wherein the hardware is listed and one can choose to > install or uninstall are jumping or flickering approximately once per second. > > 2. When one tries to install a particular device, the highlighting jumps away > from the device one has chosen, as soon as the window flickers. > > Problems 1 and 2 together are making my installation of usbsnoop to be totally > unusable. I spent several hours yesterday trying to get something out of it, > and did not succeed. > > Compounding these problems and perhaps related to them is > > 3. There does not seem to be any obvious way to remove stale entries from the > usbsnoop choice window. Rather, it seems to contain every device which has > ever > been hooked up to the machine at any time in the past, and some of the devices > indeed are listed several times, with apparently duplicate entries. > > Reinstallation of usbsnoop does not seem to help with any of these problems. I > have tried that, with no noticeable result. In particular, the relevant > information for all of those old, stale entries and duplicate entries is > obviously kept somewhere. Perhaps it would help to delete all that old cruft. > But where is it kept? > > The problems described are, unfortunately, in effect on both of the machines > which I use for testing things. One of them is an old machine running Win98, > and the other one is a slightly newer one running Win2K. Both of the machines > otherwise seem to be in perfect working order and run Linux just fine. > Therefore, I do not suspect any hardware problems on either of the machines. > > I wonder if anyone has ever encountered a similar problem, and, if so, whether > anyone has ever figured out a way to overcome the problem. Yesterday, I did > download a copy of the source code for sniff-bin-1.8 as well as the binary. > Perhaps I could find some clue in that if I knew where to look. > > I would like very much to learn any suggestions about how to deal with these > problems. > > Theodore Kilgore > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org > -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"