[sane-devel] Infrared channel

2005-02-23 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Johannes Meixner jsm...@suse.de writes: On Feb 22 17:23 Gerhard Jaeger wrote (shortened): On Tuesday 22 February 2005 16:21, Johannes Meixner wrote: Perhaps it is possible to misuse the PPD file syntax for scanner setup as well. You are right, but I don't like the idea to misuse

[sane-devel] Infrared channel

2005-02-23 Thread Johannes Meixner
Hello, On Feb 23 10:34 Olaf Meeuwissen wrote (shortened): What you are suggesting here sounds quite a bit to the way foomatic handles printers. - an XML database - a few utilities to crank out PPD files - one utility to glue the PPDs, the spooler and the printer drivers together

SANE2 was: Re: [sane-devel] Infrared channel

2005-02-23 Thread Johannes Meixner
Hello all, hello Till, I don't know if you followed the Infrared channel thread. Now I include you explicitely because I think we have come to a point where I would like to have you informed. I don't know who is the scanner-stuff maintainer at Red Hat. The Infrared channel thread has changed to

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2005-02-23 Thread gazel joel
Le lundi 21 F=E9vrier 2005 22:05, Julien BLACHE a =E9crit=A0: Gerhard Jaeger gerh...@gjaeger.de wrote: Hi, I'm going to play with this next week, and this will probably make it into the next revision of the Debian package, and to the CVS :) Hmmm, go ahead, but it should remain somewhat

SANE2 was: Re: [sane-devel] Infrared channel

2005-02-23 Thread m. allan noah
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Till Kamppeter wrote: I think, the best is if the backend can spit out this data. Then there can never happen that the database and the actually installed backends differ from each other. unfortunately, scanners often work in a fashion similar to printers, the model

SANE2 was: Re: [sane-devel] Infrared channel

2005-02-23 Thread Johannes Meixner
Hello, On Feb 23 15:14 Till Kamppeter wrote (shortened): I think, the best is if the backend can spit out this data. Then there can never happen that the database and the actually installed backends differ from each other. Yes, this would be best. In SANE one has at least only one driver

SANE2 was: Re: [sane-devel] Infrared channel

2005-02-23 Thread Johannes Meixner
Hello, On Feb 23 10:05 m. allan noah wrote (shortened): On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Till Kamppeter wrote: I think, the best is if the backend can spit out this data. Then there can never happen that the database and the actually installed backends differ from each other. unfortunately,

sane config files [was [sane-devel] Infrared channel]]

2005-02-23 Thread Oliver Rauch
Hello. I do not understand the discussion about the sane config file format. In a usual/normal case the config file of a backend should not be touched by a user or configuration program: - We do not need to enter any device files because the sanei_* routines search the devices and passes them to

sane config files [was [sane-devel] Infrared channel]]

2005-02-23 Thread Oliver Rauch
Hello. I do not understand the discussion about the sane config file format. In a usual/normal case the config file of a backend should not be touched by a user or configuration program: - We do not need to enter any device files because the sanei_* routines search the devices and passes them to

[sane-devel] C5110A (HP ScanJet 5P) Gone Mad

2005-02-23 Thread Jeff Hubbs
This scanner *was* working normally, but now it makes scans that look like this: http://home.comcast.net/~hbbs/images/out.tiff This is a 300x300 scan of a color print, full color range. This was working fine but I can't imagine what may have changed. Perhaps someone can tell me what

sane config files [was [sane-devel] Infrared channel]]

2005-02-23 Thread Oliver Rauch
Hello. I do not understand the discussion about the sane config file format. In a usual/normal case the config file of a backend should not be touched by a user or configuration program: - We do not need to enter any device files because the sanei_* routines search the devices and passes them to

sane config files [was [sane-devel] Infrared channel]]

2005-02-23 Thread m. allan noah
most respectfully oliver, i disagree. perhaps your points about scanner damage, etc are true in your backend because of models of scanners that you support, but for my backend, it is far more likely that there is an odd variation on the scanner that the backend does not know about, but works

sane config files [was [sane-devel] Infrared channel]]

2005-02-23 Thread Oliver Rauch
Am Mit, 2005-02-23 um 20.59 schrieb m. allan noah: most respectfully oliver, i disagree. perhaps your points about scanner damage, etc are true in your backend because of models of scanners that you support, but for my backend, it is far more likely that there is an odd variation on the

sane config files [was [sane-devel] Infrared channel]]

2005-02-23 Thread m. allan noah
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Oliver Rauch wrote: Am Mit, 2005-02-23 um 20.59 schrieb m. allan noah: most respectfully oliver, i disagree. perhaps your points about scanner damage, etc are true in your backend because of models of scanners that you support, but for my backend, it is far more likely

sane config files [was [sane-devel] Infrared channel]]

2005-02-23 Thread Oliver Rauch
but you give no reasons why! you just repeatedly say we are doing wrong. that is not constructive. yes, what the vendors do is odd and divergent from the normal sane installation (suse's insistence on resmgr comes to mind) but if you admit that there is a 'bad situation', the how about

sane config files [was [sane-devel] Infrared channel]]

2005-02-23 Thread Sergey Vlasov
--SUOF0GtieIMvvwua Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 08:36:44PM +0100, Oliver Rauch wrote: It is dangerous when a setup program or an unexperienced user is changing the config file. For