Casey Bralla on 5 Mar 2009 17:13:46 -0800 |
I tried simply plugging the scanner into my portable (also running Gentoo (but x86 stable instead of AMD64 unstable) and it "just worked" too. <sigh> At least now I can still use it, and most of the applications I would use it for are better suited to the portable. On Thursday 05 March 2009 7:58:38 pm Matt Mossholder wrote: > ----- "Casey Bralla" <MailList@NerdWorld.org> wrote: > > I just bought a cheap barcode scanner from New Egg. It is a USB > > scanner and > > works fine with Windows (no drivers) > > > > I'm trying to get it to work with Gentoo. So far, no go. > > > > I have a USB CueCat scanner. It also shows up as a USB keyboard. > Unfortunately (for you at least), in my case it "just works". I didn't have > to touch xorg.conf to have it recognize the scanner. Scanning a barcode > just sends to appropriate keystrokes into X, the same way the primary > keyboard does. > -- Casey Bralla Chief Nerd in Residence The NerdWorld Organisation ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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