Hi Henning, On 10/9/05, Henning Meier-Geinitz <[email protected]> wrote:
> So the status of this scanner is untested, which means that it may or > may not work. The backend is "brother" which is not part of the > sane-backends distribution. I knew that. Therefore I wrote that I'd like to give the feedback which is asked for in the docs you referenced. Have you also tried scanning with scanimage (just to be sure)? Of course. I/O Error SANE_DEBUG_BACKENDNAME=255 scanimage >/dev/null The brother backend seems not to provide any debug messages. Looks like Brother uses quite old code. In both lines, remove "(const > void*)" and compile again. After this change, the code compiles for me. Ok - this worked. libsane-brother.so.1.0.7 also differs somewhat in length from the binary in the RPM package, unfortunately after installation things are somewhat worse in that now not even a device is found. (by scanimage -L, sane-find-scanners does find something) Just for my understanding: What is the correct device identification: brother:/dev/usbscanner libusb:002:003 brother:bus2;dev1; <--- have this here but never seen it in documentation ??? > Resumee: "Scanner Access Now Easy" I must confess my interpretation > > of "easy" differs somewhat. > > Blame Brother. It's their backend and SANE developers can only give > limited help because that backend contains non-free binary-only code. > So their support is the right address for problems with the backend. I issued a support query to brother - let's see how/when they react. As for the "blaming": My advice for the sane developers is to mentally take a less "vendor bashing" position. E.g. paragraph 2.7 of the Sane FAQ is IMHO not justified for brother, because telling " Other vendors actively ignore anything that is not Windows thus limiting the sales of their scanners." is quite pathetic with the presence of these pages: http://solutions.brother.com/linux/sol/printer/linux/sane_drivers.html Also, this device does work perfectly in our Linux network, because it sends the scans as attachements in emails to the users who request them. Which is sufficient. I just wanted to test sane - years after my first test - to see what value-add it would bring today. Please tell us if after the change that scanner works so I can update > the status for it. I'll poke around with it and let you know. Bye, Richard -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/attachments/20051009/fa47b8f1/attachment.html From [email protected] Mon Oct 10 02:56:00 2005 From: [email protected] (Dietmar Segbert) Date: Sun Oct 9 17:57:48 2005 Subject: [sane-devel] snapscan options Message-ID: <[email protected]> Hello, i use a epson perfection 3590 photo with sane-cvs 2005-10-09 version.if i use the options -x auto and -y auto scanimage gives back a error. Can i not use the options -x auto and -y auto to detect the scanmaterial automaticaly? Regards Dietmar
