Re: Maxi-scan A4 scanner (AGAIN!!!) under Mandrake 8.0 (2.4.3)

From: Sebastien Sable (Sebastien.Sable@snv.jussieu.fr)
Date: Wed May 23 2001 - 09:09:22 PDT

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    Henning Meier-Geinitz <henning@meier-geinitz.de> writes:

    > > >> ls -l /dev/sg*
    > > crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 180, 48 May 21 13:28 /dev/sg0
    > > crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 180, 48 May 21 13:28 /dev/sg1
    > > crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 180, 48 May 21 13:28 /dev/sg2
    > [...]
    >
    > Huh? You are using the names for the SCSI generic devices but the
    > major and minor numbers for the USB scanner module. That's ugly.
    > Further more, all devices point to the first scanner (48). Read
    > /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt for details. Use /dev/sg* for
    > SCSI and something like /dev/usbscanner0 for USB.

    On top of that snapscan try to find the string "usb" in the device
    name to detect if it is usb or scsi (yes, that may not be the most
    clever way to do it but, well...). So that may be the reason why you
    have a problem. 

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Sébastien Sablé <Sebastien.Sable@snv.jussieu.fr>
http://inova.snv.jussieu.fr/~sable/

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