If you want to try libusb, I have a page that describes the steps necessary to get it configured: http://khk.net/sane/libusb.html
On Jan 15, 2004, at 4:30 PM, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 10:19:49PM +0100, Klaus Dittrich wrote: >>> Does using libusb instead work for you? > >> as far as I know libusb in no more necessary with linunx-2.6 >> so I have not installed it. > > In fact it's more the other way round. Ther kernel scanner driver is > marked "obsolete" so it may go away anytime soon. So your only choice > is to use libusb in future. > > Programs could also access USB devices directly by uing > /proc/bus/usb/*, but libusb is just more portable and does this low > level suff for us. > >> I think it would things confuse even more. > > If libusb worked, I would be sure that it's a bug in the kernel > scanner driver and not the kernel USB low level drivers. > >> I have no probles to go with sane-backends-1.0.12 in the meantime. > > Tha one works? I don't think that there are any USB realted changes > that may be able to cause oopses. Well, nothing should be able to > generate kernels oopses anyway. > >> If you want test your changes I will do. > > It will take some time until I've found the bug in the kernel. Don't > expect anything in the next 10 days. > >> I have made script to simplify build and install, >> so a switch between versions is a matter of a few seconds. > > The kernel or sane-backends? Isn't it just a make; make install for > both > cases anyway? > > If you want to test libusb, just make sure that it's available > (including its header files) when SANE is built. > > Bye, > Henning > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > to [email protected]
