On Saturday, 06 December 2008 at 23:53, Jean Francois Martinez wrote: [...] > Suggestions: > > In completely ideal world fedora would procide the firmware files and > everything would just work but I guess Epson's licensing (copy, give, > don't disassemble, don't sell) is a NO-NO > > > If Fedora can't provide the formware then perhaps we could provide that > ewhen sane fails to drive a scanner its error message points to firmware > and towards a file telling the above. We could probably ship the firmware in RPMFusion. If you're not interested in maintaining a firmware package then I'll see if I can do it myself or find someone else who will. > A less ambitious proposition would be: > -to include the above text in sane's doc > -Modify the /etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf so it points the user to the > file in the preceeding alinea > -the directory /usr/share/sane/snapscan should be part of the xsane > package File a bug, please. > -The firmware line in /etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf should not point towards > your-firmware-file.bin in the /etc/share/sane.d/snapcan but towards > snapscan.bin and, when user powers on the scan it would be udev's work > to make a snapcan.bin sumbolic link pointing towards the right firmware > file. File a bug, please. Regards, R. -- Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rathann RPMFusion http://rpmfusion.org | MPlayer http://mplayerhq.hu "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
