Bug 80613
| Summary: | RFE: please pre-configure USB scanner!! | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Elton Woo <elwoo> |
| Component: | kudzu | Assignee: | Bill Nottingham <notting> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | djuran, jroyse, rvokal, twaugh |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2005-09-23 19:56:06 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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What are the changes that are needed to be made? You need a mapping from SCSI/USB device to sane backend name. Then you need to add a new line to /etc/sane.d/dll.conf containing that name, and (optionally), write out /etc/sane.d/<name>.conf. In that file, you need to write a 'scsi' or 'usb' line identifying the device(s) it ought to look at, and a device filename for it to open. All these configuration files have man-pages, if that helps. See also "Bug" 85016 (RFE). Sorry to be "harping on this" but if other vendors can provide (and have been) providing this functionality, I am unhappy that Red Hat (at least, up to now) ... is unable to do so. I am still using the very same Epson 610U scanner with Severn. Several versions ago (RH, or other linux vendor), I needed to append the following line in my /etc/rc.local file: modprobe scanner vendor=0x04b8 product=0x0103 This is no longer necessary. The above vendor and product information is still available from http://www.linux-usb.org/ (USB Vendor/Device IDs list). I wonder if there is not some way to "incorporate" this into modprobe, and thence kudzu can autoconfigure the /etc/sane.d/*.conf file as each USB device is detected? Realistically, sane should be ported to HAL and should query scanners and their capabilities dynamically through that. Until that happens, it's unlikely that code will change in kudzu (even things such as making symlinks is now not something for kudzu, since it needs to be done at device creation time via udev.) Hence, closing this out. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021218 Description of problem: Usbview and the Hardware Browser both correctly detect and identify my Seiko Epson Corp. Perfection 610 USB scanner. Yet each time I install a version of Red Hat, I have to manually edit the /etc/sane.d/epson.conf file, which by default shows "SCSI ...". Please preconfigure this for new users (or new converrs from closed source OSes. Other linux distros have been doing this for several of *their* versions!!! Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1 Run Xsane 2. Xsane complains "no hardware device found' 3. Open a root console and edit /etc/sane.d/{scanner name}.conf Expected Results: Xsane should run without complaint, since both USB view and the Hardware Browser both correctly detect and identify this peripheral. Additional info: