[sane-devel] "hp4200" backend detects non-HP scanners as HP ScanJet 4200

Till Kamppeter till.kamppeter@gmx.net
Thu, 04 Sep 2003 21:46:11 +0200


Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 02:04:38PM +0200, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> 
>>Now, within the two days which me original posting needed to arrive on 
>>the SANE list, there is more information. See
>>
>>http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4987
>>
>>Especially also a user with a Mustek ScanExpress 1200 ("gt68xx" driver) 
>>observed this problem. It seems that the "hp4200" backend recognizes 
>>every scanner on USB as an HP ScanJet 4200.
> 
> 
> There is a macro "NO_AUTODETECT" that's used in that code. Maybe it's
> defined?
> 

So "NO_AUTODETECT" means "Do not identify, consider everything on the 
USB as an HP ScanJet 4200"? I have checked, nowhere "NO_AUTODETECT" is 
defined and looking onto the compiler output "NO_AUTODETECT" is not set.

    Till