On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 21:58 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote: > No, device access via libusb is exclusive (as it needs!) so this is not > possible. One way around this, though, would be to modify libsane to > send a D-Bus message to the HAL add-on so it releases the device (unless > you configured libsane to not do this). That's probably not a lot of > work, I'd just patch backend/dll.c:sane_open() in sane-backends and hey > presto this should work. Getting such a (compile-time) option past the > SANE developers may be harder though, but I guess if you make a good > case for it, then it should be feasible.
FWIW, I've asked for this on sane-devel http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2007-March/018864.html Let's hope they think it's a good idea! David _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list