[52d29f7] | 1 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
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[6732c094] | 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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[52d29f7] | 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 |
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[15b3bc29] | 7 | <!ENTITY libusb-download-http "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/libusb/libusb-&libusb-version;.tar.gz">
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[de49ebd] | 8 | <!ENTITY libusb-download-ftp " ">
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| 9 | <!ENTITY libusb-md5sum "caf182cbc7565dac0fd72155919672e6">
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| 10 | <!ENTITY libusb-size "389 KB">
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| 11 | <!ENTITY libusb-buildsize "8.4 MB (includes installing all documentation)">
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| 12 | <!ENTITY libusb-time "0.3 SBU (includes building all documentation)">
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[52d29f7] | 13 | ]>
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| 14 |
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[bdf5806e] | 15 | <sect1 id="libusb" xreflabel="libusb-&libusb-version;">
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[fc3e01f] | 16 | <?dbhtml filename="libusb.html"?>
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[4c3474fe] | 17 |
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[fc3e01f] | 18 | <sect1info>
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| 19 | <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
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| 20 | <date>$Date$</date>
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| 21 | </sect1info>
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[4c3474fe] | 22 |
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[1f3b7a7] | 23 | <title>libusb-&libusb-version;</title>
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[4c3474fe] | 24 |
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[fc3e01f] | 25 | <indexterm zone="libusb">
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| 26 | <primary sortas="a-Libusb">Libusb</primary>
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| 27 | </indexterm>
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| 28 |
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| 29 | <sect2 role="package">
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[1f3b7a7] | 30 | <title>Introduction to libusb</title>
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[4c3474fe] | 31 |
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[fc3e01f] | 32 | <para>The <application>libusb</application> package contains a library
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| 33 | used by some applications for USB device access.</para>
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[4c3474fe] | 34 |
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[fc3e01f] | 35 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
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| 36 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 37 | <listitem>
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| 38 | <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&libusb-download-http;"/></para>
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| 39 | </listitem>
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| 40 | <listitem>
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| 41 | <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&libusb-download-ftp;"/></para>
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| 42 | </listitem>
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| 43 | <listitem>
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| 44 | <para>Download MD5 sum: &libusb-md5sum;</para>
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| 45 | </listitem>
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| 46 | <listitem>
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| 47 | <para>Download size: &libusb-size;</para>
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| 48 | </listitem>
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| 49 | <listitem>
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| 50 | <para>Estimated disk space required: &libusb-buildsize;</para>
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| 51 | </listitem>
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| 52 | <listitem>
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| 53 | <para>Estimated build time: &libusb-time;</para>
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| 54 | </listitem>
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| 55 | </itemizedlist>
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[4c3474fe] | 56 |
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[1f3b7a7] | 57 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">libusb Dependencies</bridgehead>
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[4c3474fe] | 58 |
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[de49ebd] | 59 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
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| 60 | <para role="optional"><xref linkend="pkgconfig"/></para>
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| 61 |
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| 62 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional
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| 63 | (Required to Build the HTML User Manual)</bridgehead>
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[4f26c54] | 64 | <para role="optional"><xref linkend="openjade"/> and
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[74390482] | 65 | <ulink url="http://www.docbook.org/sgml/4.2/index.html"> DocBOOK SGML
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[4c3474fe] | 66 | DTD-4.2</ulink></para>
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| 67 |
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[de49ebd] | 68 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional
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| 69 | (Required to Build the API Documentation)</bridgehead>
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[4f26c54] | 70 | <para role="optional"><xref linkend="doxygen"/> and
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[6722219] | 71 | <xref linkend="graphviz"/></para>
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[4c3474fe] | 72 |
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[1039de3] | 73 | <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
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| 74 | <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/libusb"/></para>
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| 75 |
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[fc3e01f] | 76 | </sect2>
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[4c3474fe] | 77 |
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[fc3e01f] | 78 | <sect2 role="installation">
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[1f3b7a7] | 79 | <title>Installation of libusb</title>
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[fc3e01f] | 80 |
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[74390482] | 81 | <para>Install <application>libusb</application> by running the following
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[fc3e01f] | 82 | commands:</para>
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| 83 |
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| 84 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-build-docs &&
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| 85 | make</userinput></screen>
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| 86 |
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[1f3b7a7] | 87 | <para>If you wish to build the API documentation (see the required
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| 88 | dependencies), issue the following command:</para>
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[fc3e01f] | 89 |
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| 90 | <screen><userinput>make apidox</userinput></screen>
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[4c3474fe] | 91 |
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[1f3b7a7] | 92 | <para>To test the results, issue <command>make -k check</command>.</para>
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| 93 |
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[fc3e01f] | 94 | <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
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[4c3474fe] | 95 |
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[fc3e01f] | 96 | <screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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| 97 |
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[1f3b7a7] | 98 | <para>If you built the HTML user manual (by having the required
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| 99 | dependencies installed and removing the
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| 100 | <parameter>--disable-build-docs</parameter> parameter from the
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| 101 | <command>configure</command> command), install it using the following
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| 102 | commands as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
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[fc3e01f] | 103 |
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| 104 | <screen role="root"><userinput>install -v -d -m755 /usr/share/doc/libusb-&libusb-version;/html &&
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| 105 | install -v -m644 doc/html/* /usr/share/doc/libusb-&libusb-version;/html</userinput></screen>
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| 106 |
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[1f3b7a7] | 107 | <para>If you built the API documentation, install it using the following
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| 108 | commands as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
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[fc3e01f] | 109 |
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| 110 | <screen role="root"><userinput>install -v -d -m755 /usr/share/doc/libusb-&libusb-version;/apidocs &&
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[4c288b0] | 111 | install -v -m644 apidocs/html/* \
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| 112 | /usr/share/doc/libusb-&libusb-version;/apidocs</userinput></screen>
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[4c3474fe] | 113 |
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[fc3e01f] | 114 | </sect2>
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[4c3474fe] | 115 |
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[fc3e01f] | 116 | <sect2 role="commands">
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| 117 | <title>Command Explanations</title>
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| 118 |
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[1f3b7a7] | 119 | <para><parameter>--disable-build-docs</parameter>: This switch avoids
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[de49ebd] | 120 | building the HTML user manual. Remove it if you have the required
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| 121 | dependencies installed and wish to build the manual.</para>
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[4412b30b] | 122 |
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[fc3e01f] | 123 | </sect2>
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[4c3474fe] | 124 |
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[fc3e01f] | 125 | <sect2 role="configuration">
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| 126 | <title>Configuring Libusb</title>
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| 127 |
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[33ca2b6] | 128 | <!--
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[74390482] | 129 | <para><application>libusb</application> requires the
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| 130 | <systemitem class="filesystem">usbfs</systemitem> kernel filesystem
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| 131 | to be mounted on <filename class="directory">/proc/bus/usb</filename>.
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| 132 | Applications require the files in this directory to be accessible to the user,
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| 133 | sometimes for both reading and writing. To restrict access to USB devices,
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| 134 | ensure the <systemitem class="filesystem">usb</systemitem> group exits
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| 135 | on your system. If necessary, create the <systemitem
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[fc3e01f] | 136 | class="filesystem">usb</systemitem> group using the following command:</para>
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| 137 |
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| 138 | <screen role='root'><userinput>groupadd -g 14 usb</userinput></screen>
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[33ca2b6] | 139 | -->
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[fc3e01f] | 140 |
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[7bcc1669] | 141 | <para id="libusb-kernel">To access raw USB devices (those not treated as a
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| 142 | disk by the mass-storage driver), appropriate support must be available in
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| 143 | the kernel. Check your kernel configuration for Device Drivers ⇒ USB
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| 144 | support ⇒ Support for Host-side USB. Select any USB hardware device
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| 145 | drivers you may need on the same page.</para>
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[9f12e36] | 146 |
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[fc3e01f] | 147 | <indexterm zone="libusb libusb-kernel">
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[7bcc1669] | 148 | <primary sortas="d-USB-device-filesystem">Support for Host-side USB</primary>
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[fc3e01f] | 149 | </indexterm>
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[9f12e36] | 150 |
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| 151 | <para>To have raw USB devices set up properly, add the following
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| 152 | <application>udev</application> rule and add any users
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[531886d] | 153 | that need to access raw USB devices to the "usb" group.</para>
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[9f12e36] | 154 |
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[4e4fa01] | 155 | <screen><literal>cat > /etc/udev/rules.d/23-usb.rules << "EOF"
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[9f12e36] | 156 | # Set group ownership for raw USB devices
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[3e50349d] | 157 | SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", GROUP="usb"
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[7bcc1669] | 158 | EOF</literal></screen>
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| 159 |
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[e73e361] | 160 | <!--
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[531886d] | 161 | <para>Fine-tuning of permissions is also possible by creating extra rules,
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[7bcc1669] | 162 | matching on something like this (on one line). The vendor and product can
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| 163 | be found by searchng the <filename
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[531886d] | 164 | class='directory'>/sys/devices</filename> directory entries or using
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| 165 | <command>udevinfo</command> after the device has been attached. See the
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| 166 | documentation in the current udev directory of <filename
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| 167 | class='directory'>/usr/share/doc></filename> for details.</para>
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[7bcc1669] | 168 |
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[9f12e36] | 169 | <screen><literal>SUBSYSTEM=="usb_device", SYSFS{idVendor}=="05d8",
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[7bcc1669] | 170 | SYSFS{idProduct}=="4002", GROUP:="scanner"</literal></screen>
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| 171 |
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[531886d] | 172 | <para>Some older applications, such as <application>VMware</application>,
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| 173 | need the following deprecated entry in the <filename>/etc/fstab</filename>
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[93b8f83d] | 174 | file. This is not normally needed.</para>
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[fc3e01f] | 175 |
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| 176 | <screen><literal>usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=14,devmode=0660 0 0</literal></screen>
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[e73e361] | 177 | -->
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[4c3474fe] | 178 |
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[fc3e01f] | 179 | </sect2>
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[4c3474fe] | 180 |
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[fc3e01f] | 181 | <sect2 role="content">
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| 182 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 183 |
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| 184 | <segmentedlist>
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| 185 | <segtitle>Installed Program</segtitle>
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| 186 | <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
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| 187 | <segtitle>Installed Directory</segtitle>
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[4c3474fe] | 188 |
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[fc3e01f] | 189 | <seglistitem>
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[7833af6] | 190 | <seg>libusb-config</seg>
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[1039de3] | 191 | <seg>libusb.{so,a} and libusbpp.{so,a}</seg>
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[fc3e01f] | 192 | <seg>/usr/share/doc/libusb-&libusb-version;</seg>
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| 193 | </seglistitem>
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| 194 | </segmentedlist>
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[4c3474fe] | 195 |
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[fc3e01f] | 196 | <variablelist>
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| 197 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 198 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 199 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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[4c3474fe] | 200 |
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[7833af6] | 201 | <varlistentry id="libusb-config">
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| 202 | <term><command>libusb-config</command></term>
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[fc3e01f] | 203 | <listitem>
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[74390482] | 204 | <para>is a script that provides the right compiler and linker
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| 205 | flags for programs using
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[fc3e01f] | 206 | <filename class='libraryfile'>libusb</filename>.</para>
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[7833af6] | 207 | <indexterm zone="libusb libusb-config">
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| 208 | <primary sortas="b-libusb-config">libusb-config</primary>
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[fc3e01f] | 209 | </indexterm>
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| 210 | </listitem>
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| 211 | </varlistentry>
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[4c3474fe] | 212 |
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[fc3e01f] | 213 | <varlistentry id="libusb-lib">
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[1039de3] | 214 | <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libusb.{so,a}</filename></term>
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[fc3e01f] | 215 | <listitem>
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[74390482] | 216 | <para> libraries contain C functions for accessing
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[fc3e01f] | 217 | USB hardware.</para>
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| 218 | <indexterm zone="libusb libusb-lib">
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[1039de3] | 219 | <primary sortas="c-libusb">libusb.{so,a}</primary>
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[fc3e01f] | 220 | </indexterm>
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| 221 | </listitem>
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| 222 | </varlistentry>
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[4c3474fe] | 223 |
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[fc3e01f] | 224 | </variablelist>
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| 225 |
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| 226 | </sect2>
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[bdf5806e] | 227 |
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| 228 | </sect1>
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