question on SCSI-scanners

[Danny Kukawka]

On Montag, 5. Januar 2009, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 11:59, Dieter Jurzitza
>
> <dieter.jurzitza at t-online.de> wrote:
> > not to forget to mention: there is a fdi-file
> >
> > in /etc/hal/fdi/information/20thirdparty80-scanner.fdi
> >
> > that refers to HP scanners only. In contrast - as you readily mentioned -
>
> Hmm, I don't have that. Let's see which package installs it. What does:
>   rpm -qf /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/20thirdparty/80-scanner.fdi
> print?

I guess this is from (lib)sane. There is no scanner detection in HAL except 
maybe for generic SCSI scanner. The sane package is responsible to provide a 
fdi file for supported scanners.

Danny