Hi Gerald, Thankyou for your reply.
On 20/05/07, Gerald Murray wrote: > Quoting Hugh McMaster: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > I just ran the sane-find-scanner command on my computer, and I noticed > > that in the verbose output, the programme detected my USB mouse. > > > > I assume that is would be the behaviour of libusb, since it detects > > most USB devices. Is that correct? Libusb detected my scanner (Canon > > 3000F) as well. > > Normal would be that a mouse has a driver assigned, such as usbhid, > and sane-find-scanner should leave it alone. I could not get > sane-find-scanner > to list my mouse even after I put the vendor and product numbers in > sane.d/genesys.conf. Perhaps there is an incorrect vendor/product entry > in the *.conf files that you have? I haven't altered any configuration files, though. > libusb is able to communicate with almost any usb device. This is the best explanation, since libusb can communicate with the mouse, so it would get displayed wouldn't it? Although I thought sane-find-scanner was programmed to display scanners only? Hugh