[sane-devel] Detect scan button on ScanSnap S1500 (sane-fujitsu backend)

[Wilhelm]

Hello,

Am 10.11.2010 10:02, schrieb Johannes Meixner:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> On Nov 9 18:39 Wilhelm wrote (shortened):
>> Am 09.11.2010 17:47, schrieb Johannes Meixner:
>>>
>>> If it really needs HAL, it is probably not very promising
>>> because HAL is meanwhile deprecated.
>>
>> yes, I know that!
>>
>> But its not scanbd's fault
> 
> Of course it is not scanbd's fault!
> 
> 
>> Bottom line: scanbd may use libhal/dbus, but if hal isn't
>> available, it does not hurt: the only consequence is,
>> that newly plugged scanners aren't instantly detected.
>> Then you can send a signal or restart it via udev.
> 
> Now it looks promising!
> 
> In particular because udev rules for very most scanners do already
> exist (a libsane.rules udev rules file from SANE plus generic
> udev rules like acl.rules) it should be relatively easy to
> enhance this to send additionally a singal to scanbd.
> 
> According to
> http://scanbd.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/scanbd/trunk/Makefile?revision=23&view=markup
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> LDFLAGS += -lconfuse -lsane -lpthread -ldbus-1 -lhal -lhal-storage
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> it seems it links with HAL libraries in any case so that
> I got the idea that it actually needs HAL in any case.
> 
> Because HAL is deprecated, would you mind to change it
> so that it does no longer link with HAL so that it
> would compile "as is" for current Linux distributions?

Sure, I can make this optional.

> 
> 
> If you like to provide readymade RPMs for the usual current
> Linux distributions for the usual hardware architectures,
> I would like to suggest to have a look at the openSUSE build service:
> https://build.opensuse.org/

Thanks, I will have a look.

> 
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> The only non-free issue is that we (i.e. Novell/openSUSE)
> do not support building of packages as an anonymous user.
> 
> 
> Kind Regards
> Johannes Meixner


-- 
Wilhelm