[sane-devel] USB sanner only as root

2006-01-23 Thread Johannes Meixner
Hello, I just picked up the question below but I didn't follow the whole thread (in particular I do not understand why the subject is about USB sanner but the question below is about SCSI). On 2006-01-18 03:21, Mogens Jaeger wrote: sane-find-scanner reports: found SCSI processor EPSON

[sane-devel] Vendor and product ids in description files

2006-01-23 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Henning Meier-Geinitz henn...@meier-geinitz.de writes: Hi, On 2006-01-20 23:55, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: It took a little longer than anticipated, but I've added a bunch of :usbid entries to epkowa.desc. Patch attached (epkowa-usbid.diff). I've also updated the file to match iscan-1.18.0,

[sane-devel] Using sanei_access: recommended or not?

2006-01-23 Thread Lauri Pirttiaho
Hello, While writing the backend, I noticed so far only plustek backend seems to employ sanei_access for locking the device. Since in multi user systems it is possible that accidentally someone else might try to access a scanner in use, I think using the locking mechanism provided by sanei_access

[sane-devel] new epson backend

2006-01-23 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Alessandro Zummo azummo-li...@towertech.it writes: Hello, Hi! a little status report on the backend I'm writing. I've modified the epson backend to support the AcuLaser CX11NF via network connection. Sane now recognizes the scanner and talks to it, but there are still issues I need

[sane-devel] new epson backend

2006-01-23 Thread Alessandro Zummo
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 08:24:23 +0900 Olaf Meeuwissen olaf.meeuwis...@avasys.jp wrote: Hmm, I'm not really in favour of a new name if the protocol is just a thin wrapper around ESC/I (which is what the epson and epkowa backends support). In that case it may be better (as in less confusing to