2009/6/1 K?re S?rs <kare.sars at iki.fi>: > On Monday 01 June 2009 00:58:41 m. allan noah wrote: >> there was a bug in sanei_usb which prevented sane from discovering >> newly added scanners. This was fixed in 1.0.20. Unfortunately, some >> backends only ask the system for a list of scanners during >> sane_init(). I fixed mine, but I bet other backends are still broken >> in this regard. Which backend/scanner is this? >> > > libsane 1.0.19-23ubuntu7 and ?Epson Stylus RX500 (epson). > > I did also enable/disable the test backend in dll.conf, with the same result. > > I'll try it again with 1.0.20 as the situation should be better there (as Olaf > mentioned), but I guess I will work around it, by calling sane_exit/sane_init > if sane_open hasn't been called yet.
Olaf indicated that he thought epson backend was still broken. I dont know about it's replacement (epson2). > What can be done to fix the underlying problem? Do you see it as a problem > that > will go away with time, or should I be prepared to keep the workaround > indefinitely? Most frontends only scan for scanners at startup. I would expect this to be fixed before the next release of sane, which I intend to do more frequently than we have lately. Volunteers welcome :) allan -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"