Hi, On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 12:05 AM Gerhard Jäger <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Ralph, > > On 25.03.22 at 07:29 Ralph Little wrote: > > Hi, > > I have been testing the plustek_pp driver with a machine that I have. > > Wow - never thought that anybody will ever use that thingy in 2022 ;) > I was surprised at how quick the scanner is, a Plustek OpticPro 9630PL and it seems pretty reliable. I was expecting it to be a bit flaky. > > > I was surprised to find that the Ubuntu package that I have uses the > configure > > option --enable-parport-directio. > > This causes the libieee1284 library use in sanei_pp to be disabled, even > though > > libieee1284-3-dev is listed as a dependency. > > > > Is there any reason why we would do this in general? > > Think this is set since ages and has never changed. In the 'good old days', > it looked to me that direct I/O works better on that Plustek devices... > > Anyhow. Disabling that as per default won't harm - IMO. > > > If I test with libieee1284 enabled, it works fine and device names are a > bit > > more sane (i.e. for parport0). > > Also, access is available here when a member of the lp group. Don't need > to be > > root. > > Which is good ;) > I will raise an issue with Ubuntu to see if there is some merit in getting the change and I will make the change in our PPA. The test was primarily to see if my recent changes to remove the kernel compiling mode of the plustek_pp backend hadn't broken anything. > > Thanks for testing, > Gerhard > Cheers, Ralph
