Re: Is /dev/scanner still neccessary?

Oliver Rauch (oliver.rauch@Wolfsburg.DE)
Tue, 14 Jul 1998 22:22:08 +0200

Christoph Doerbeck wrote:

> Having upgraded to sane-0.73 recently, I now noticed that the /dev/scanner
> link to my scanner device (/dev/sge) is no longer neccessary. In fact, it
> seems to be more of a nuisance (causing me to answer an extra dialog box
> when engaging xscanimage).
>
> Could someone enlighten me, or point me at the updated documentation?

If your system supports /proc/scsi/scsi and your backend is prepared to read
/proc/scsi/scsi,you don't need a link to /dev/scanner.

It never was nevessary, becuase you was able to add a /dev/sge to your
BACKEND.conf-file.

Bye
Oliver

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