On Sun, 21 May 2006, Aras Vaichas wrote: > Hi, > > I get two different results from a USB barcode reader (PSC - Quickscan 6500 > using usbhid) on two different Linux systems. > > On the "broken" system it keeps randomly swapping digits. > > On my laptop, Linux Knoppix 2.6.12 #2 SMP, I would correctly scan barcodes > with > these serial numbers: > > 20906 > 20959 > 20779 > 21126 > > while on my desktop, Linux Gentoo 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 #9, the scan is: > > 20096 - swaps these > 20599 - swaps sometimes > 20779 - doesn't swap this one
Maybe it is swapping them. How could you tell if the two 7s were interchanged? :-) > 21126/22116 - randomly swaps these! > > The other funny thing is, that this only seems to occur in bash, I tried > scanning into Thunderbird and the results were always correct, scanning into > Konqueror gave even more random errors. > > Is there some strange difference between bash on the laptop or my desktop? There should not be any significant difference. Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
