[sane-devel] scanbd daemon does not load firmware

Wilhelm wilhelm.meier at fh-kl.de
Thu Aug 29 13:55:09 UTC 2013


Am 29.08.2013 15:52, schrieb Ilya V. Ivanchenko:
> Hi Wilhelm,
>
>> >> is there a special reason using the (old) scanbuttond-backends and not
>  >>>sane-backends?
>  >> I first tried sane-backends, and apparently it does not read the buttons
>  >> for Epson GT-1500.
>  >
>  >did you use the epkowa backend? The sane-support-page says, that this
>  >backend supports most features of the GT-1500.
> Yes, epkowa is the backend used in the current configuration. I had
> problems of getting buttons to work with sane, but now retracing back it
> may be due to sane configuration needing epson2 (would not work with
> epkowa for some reason), and switching to scanbd needing epkowa (would
> not work with epson2).
>
> I just tried "scanimage -A" again and found "--monitor-button" option
> there, but "scanimage -h" does not have button options (except
> --wait-for-button). Can you suggest what commands I should use to test
> the buttons from command line?
>
>  >> So my current conclusions are that there are two potential issues to
> fix:
>  >>  1. Make sane-backends support buttons that scanbuttond-backends
> support.
>  >
>  >that would be the best choice, since I have no real plans to support the
>  >scanbuttond backends.
> I guess I could try sane-backends again to see if I can make the buttons
> work with epkowa backend.
>
>  >>  2. When using scanbuttond-backends, fix loading firmware on USB insert.
>  >
>  >what I could imagine is to fix this problem with a special
>  >shell-callback, when scanbd detects a device inserion / removal.
> This is in the nutshell how I patched the problem from udev.

yes, but you had to stop / restart the scanbd and that's more a 
workaround than a solution ...

>
> --
> Ilya


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