Rayudu, When I first decided to write a driver for my Lexmark X1185 I started with the Lexmark USB Scanner Device Driver kit. It has many draw backs; it's not open source; it's meant to work with old kernels (2.4x) - compatible with RedHat 8.0, RedHat 9.0, Mandrake 9.0, Mandrake 9.1, Mandrake 9.2, SuSE 8.1, SuSE 8.2 and SuSE 9.0.; it's built on a really old version of SANE backend development libraries (1.0.13); you have to hack frontend and backend makefiles to add support for linking in c++ code; it only works for the following AIO devices: X5250, X7170.
Any one of these is reason enough not to use it, but when you put them all together you have to ask "why bother offering the kit in the first place?". I abandoned this approach and wrote my own driver using usb logfiles from scans on a Windows machine using the Lexmark driver. It is now in the SANE backends CVS repository and works for all X1100 series scanners except the new X1195. It scans well, but I've received complaints about image quality. This is because it doesn't do colour calibration or dark compensation yet. regards, Fred Odendaal Rayudu Addagarla wrote: > Hello Fred Odendaal > http://www.lexmark.com/US/products/info/linux/requirements.html > > Did you try this. on the above link see this Lexmark USB Scanner > Device Driver > <http://www.lexmark.com/US/products/info/linux/gnu_agreement8_rev2.html> > > Thanks > > > On 11/14/05, *Fred Odendaal* <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > The Lexmark X3300 is unsupported by SANE. Its not even listed in > the supported devices <http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html> > web page. > > You could write your own driver, or make a request on this list > that someone write one. I wouldn't hold my breath trying to get > someone to write one. Its very difficult for the writer unless he > has the exact same model for testing. Also, Lexmark is very close > mouthed about their scanner technology, so the writer needs to do > a lot of scans on a Windows machine using the Lexmark Windows > driver and log the usb transfers and reverse engineer the backend > from the log files. > > regards, > Fred Odendaal > > > Terrence van Ettinger wrote: > >> I'm trying to use scanimage with my Lexmark 3300, and >>sane-find-scanner shows it, but when I try to do scanimage, it can't >>find the scanner. What do I need to do about this? >> >>Thanks, >>Terrence >> >> >> >> > > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > > > > > -- > Kondala Rayudu Addagarla > Java Developer & Unix/Linux Administrator. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/attachments/20051118/f1d3d665/attachment.htm From [email protected] Sat Nov 19 10:58:36 2005 From: [email protected] (Oliver Rauch) Date: Sat Nov 19 10:58:47 2005 Subject: [sane-devel] Mail Setup Problem In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> References: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <1132397916.2134.16.camel@Babylon7> To the "sensible-browser" problem: I guess that /usr/bin/sensible-browser is a symbolic link to your prefered webbrowser. By changing the permissions of /usr/bin/sensible-browser you only change the permissions of the symbolic link, not of the file where it points to. Do ls -l /usr/bin/sensible-browser and change the permissions of the program where it ponits to. To the mail problem: Please do export XSANE_DEBUG=12 xsane > debug.txt and try to send a mail gzip debug.txt and send it to me (NOT TO THE LIST). Best regards Oliver Am Die, 2005-11-15 um 22.33 schrieb Thomas H. George: > Xsane (Version 0.97 installed on a stable (Sarge) Debian box with > apt-get) works beautifully with my Epson USB scanner and printer. > > My only problem is in trying to email an image. I have entered the mail > setup information exactly as I have for Mozilla. When I try to transmit > the project the mail project screen first displays a message 'sending' > and then a message 'From entry not accepted'. > > I don't where this rejection occurs. My ISP insists they do not reject > any transmission so the problem must be with the software. > > When I clicked on help I got a message: > > Failed to execute document viewer: /usr/bin/sensible-browser: > No such file or directory > > In fact, there is such a file but, although I have changed its ownership > to root:tom and its permissions to 776, clicking on help still gives the > same failure message.. This was not a show stopper as I went to > www.xsane.org/doc and read the mail setup instructions there. > > Any suggestions? > > Tom George >
