'epjitsu' backend, in this case. allan
On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 12:52 PM Ralph Little <skelb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 9:02 AM m. allan noah <kitno...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> An easier mechanism might be to comment out all the backends you are not >> using in /etc/sane.d/dll.conf >> >> allan >> >> > On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 11:54 AM Felix E. Klee <felix.k...@inka.de> wrote: >> >>> Ralph Little <skelb...@gmail.com> writes: >>> > If you don't specify the scanner to scanimage with the -d option, then >>> > it will poll around all the backends to obtain a list of the available >>> > scanners first. This typically can take quite a good few seconds. >>> >>> This is the explanation, thanks! Glad I asked. Now this is fun: >>> >>> scanimage -o out.png -d "epjitsu:libusb:003:007" --resolution 200dpi >>> >>> :D >> >> > I concur. > > Since you have a USB connection, the device name is likely to change every > time you power cycle the scanner as the USB subsystem will assign a > different address. Leaving only the fujitsu backend available in the > dll.conf file, the startup delay will be next to nothing. > > Cheers, > Ralph > > > > -- "well, I stand up next to a mountain- and I chop it down with the edge of my hand"