Additionally the vloopback module required by this software package has
been abandoned since 2007. The man pages clearly refer to vloopback
being required, but the links are broken. It takes some serious
searching to even find the particular vloopback module this package
needs (yet is not included
dv4l is not compatible with v4l2loopback-dkms (which I think is derived
from the original vloopback).
dv4lstart doesn't appear to work, either (a problem with LD_PRELOAD or
the so being loaded?)
At any rate, dv4l is entirely unusable on a 64 bit machine for 12.04 and
12.10.
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I think my issue is more pertinent to Bug #217571, but anyone who ends
up at this ticket should be aware that the proposed fix here will not
resolve the issue of only root being able to utilize the scanner.
If the above solution does not fix your problem, test xsane with root
just to see if it can
After having problems with the MX340, I tried the listed instructions.
The following line comes from config.log:
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
--enable-libusb_1_0
It compiled and installed just fine. I did this some time ago, but you can
compare the times
Jarrett,
The good news is that the deafening silence you referred to in a forum post is
a problem the Ubuntu Team is trying to solve:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Specs/ImproveSponsorshipQueue
The bad news is that the proposed solutions are waiting on 11.04
release.
My advice would be to hop on IRC
