[sane-devel] Hotplug and udev files created automatically now, please test!

2006-05-02 Thread m. allan noah
we take patches :) allan On Tue, 2 May 2006, Peter Christy wrote: I'm running Slackware-current, and using udev *without* hotplug to try and improve start-up times. I've built the latest cvs of sane and installed it, but it seems that it still relies on hotplug to set permissions for USB

[sane-devel] Hotplug and udev files created automatically now, please test!

2006-05-02 Thread Peter Christy
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 15:50, m. allan noah wrote: we take patches :) Which I would love to supply, but I've no idea where to start! My programming days ended with the 8-bit era! Seriously though, I've been trying to work out if there is anyway of working around the issue, so far without

[sane-devel] Hotplug and udev files created automatically now, please test!

2006-05-02 Thread m. allan noah
you likely know more about it than i do, but i am not sure why it became sane's responsibility to setup your hardware permissions. sane developers attempt to help because we have a pretty good list of scanner usb ids, but sane supports dozens of os variants, making it quite difficult for us to

[sane-devel] Hotplug and udev files created automatically now, please test!

2006-05-02 Thread Wittawat Yamwong
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 15:17, Peter Christy wrote: [...] I can't find anyway of making sane use the /sys (or /dev) devices rather than /proc. Neither does it seem possible to make udev change the permissions of devices mounted under /proc. (The naming systems are different) I'm not familiar

[sane-devel] Hotplug and udev files created automatically now, please test!

2006-05-02 Thread Peter Christy
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 17:40, m. allan noah wrote: i am confused by this- first you say that you need sane to look under /sys or /dev for devices, then you say that you have to alter permissions to get it working. which is it? udev mounts the usbscanner under /sys In my case, under

[sane-devel] Hotplug and udev files created automatically now, please test!

2006-05-02 Thread m. allan noah
try this: SANE_DEBUG_SANEI_USB=255 scanimage -L then look thru that output. do you see a line like this: [sanei_usb] sanei_usb_init: Looking for kernel scanner devices what comes immediately after that? allan On Tue, 2 May 2006, Peter Christy wrote: On Tuesday 02 May 2006 17:40, m. allan

[sane-devel] Hotplug and udev files created automatically now, please test!

2006-05-02 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, On 2006-05-02 14:17, Peter Christy wrote: I've built the latest cvs of sane and installed it, but it seems that it still relies on hotplug to set permissions for USB devices. My system no longer has hotplug (nor does Debian, I believe, and many others are in the process of dropping

[sane-devel] HP Scanjet 2400

2006-05-02 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, On 2006-04-28 18:46, Pusk?s R?bert wrote: I have a HP Scanjet 2400 scanner, and I found out, that it's unsupported by sane. Even in the Genesys backend. Will my scanner be supported, in the near future? This depends on you. The general backend code is there, only the adaption of it to

[sane-devel] xsane errors

2006-05-02 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, On 2006-04-28 08:31, Gary Montalbine wrote: I get the following errors from xsane: (xsane:5227): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_accel_label_new: assertion `string != NULL' failed [...] You can enable debugging by running xsane like this: XSANE_DEBUG=255 xsane (use a lower debug level to