On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Chris Bagwell <chris at cnpbagwell.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 11:36 PM, Olaf Meeuwissen > <olaf.meeuwissen at avasys.jp> wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Chris Bagwell wrote: >>> >>> On Fedora, it seems its a common problem that hal or udev gets the >>> permissions for scsi Epson scanners wrong and users can only scan as >>> root. ?They generically fix permissions for scsi "scanner" class but >>> not "processor". ?Their work around is to edit entry for specific >>> scanner in the epson2.desc file and a line as follows each time a user >>> reports a problem: >>> >>> :scsi "ESPON" "Exact Model Name Reported" "processor" >> >> The 2010-03-01 git snapshot has >> >> ?$ ?grep :scsi doc/descriptions*/ep*.desc >> ?doc/descriptions/epson.desc::scsi "EPSON" "SCANNER GT-7000" "processor" >> ?doc/descriptions/epson.desc::scsi "EPSON" "Perfection1200" "processor" >> ?doc/descriptions/epson.desc::scsi "EPSON" "Perfection636" "processor" >> ?doc/descriptions/epson.desc::scsi "EPSON" "Perfection1200" "processor" >> >> already. ?Are you talking about other models? > > Yes, they have a patch for "Expression800" in addition. ?My assumption > is it would be an issue with any SCSI-only EPSON scanner? ?Or is there > a small subset of names all models use? > >>> Mostly, the epson2.desc values are driven by epkowa developers from >>> their epkowa.desc. ?Would it be possible for epkowa developers to >>> provide a ":scsi" line for all SCSI devices? >> >> Yes. ?No promises on a release time line but we could send a diff to the >> list and ask someone with the necessary privileges to commit. > > My understanding is that epson2.desc updates are automated based on > epkowa.desc updates. ?So if you could send this updated file to list > when its ready, I can submit it. ?That would be great! ?Its brute > force fix but it will work nicely. >
Take care. Epkowa and epson2 do not support all the same scanners. I'm not sure how Alessandro maintains the list now. allan -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
