[argyllcms] Re: Running dispcal stops usb card reader

hetas wrote:
> Wouldn't that affect users using usb-serial-adapter for their colorimeter?

Not at all.

> I tried running setserial -gb /dev/ttyUSB* and that did stop the card reader. 
> Gave me no output,
> though. But at least problem is not specific to dispcal.

OK, sounds like that's the easiest solution then.

> Does this still point to problems with the card reader or the usb-serial 
> driver? If opening the
> port is de facto way of getting information about a device then this 
> shouldn't affect the device?

Possibly, it's hard to know.

> Would it be too much of a hack to have an option to bypass serial devices and 
> probe usb only?

It would be nice to avoid that, as it makes it harder to use.

> Or maybe with less and less serial devices it would make more sense to have 
> an option to include
> serial devices but that wouldn't be backwards compatible then.

Possibly. A lot of people still use the Spectrolino/Spectroscan though, 
although this may drop off
now that X-Rite are no longer recalibrating them.

Graeme Gill.

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