[sane-devel] scanbd with HP8250 (avision)

[Wilhelm]

Hi James,

Am 08.11.2013 18:17, schrieb James Klaas:

...

> and enumerates the options repeatedly until I hit a button on the
> scanner, at which point it goes back to only showing the above
> "Iteration on dbus call" messages. I posted my log at
> http://pastebin.com/XbHawE9c.

looks good as your scanner seems to be recognized via libsane. Now you
have to figure out which button maps to which option: watch the logfile
while you are pressing the buttons. Then you can modify the example
scripts to get useful actions to be done.

-- 
Wilhelm
w.meier at unix.net

[sane-devel] Udev Absolutely Required Or Not?

[Frank Peters]

Hello,

Sane will not detect my usb scanners with kernels 3.5 and up due
to the elimination of usbfs.  IOW, libusb cannot read/write to
usb scanners with the recent kernels.

Udev is the method always described in the documents to get usb
scanners recognized.  However, I have never used udev and I would
rather avoid the use of udev (or any equivalent).

Is udev an *absolute* requirement for kernels 3.5+ or is there
some other way to get usb scanners to function with Sane?

Currently, to avoid udev, I boot into kernel-3.4.68 when I need
to make scans, but I would rather not have to do this.

IMHO, an absolute requirement for udev would be a poor decision
for Sane.  Linux, and all OSS, is about freedom of choice and I am
sure that many want to choose *not* to use udev.

Frank Peters