[sane-devel] help for write back-end

2005-02-15 Thread m. allan noah
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[sane-devel] Infrared channel

2005-02-22 Thread m. allan noah
the problem is our SANE 1 standard, which defines the image format. We have currently only the possibility to pass RGB data to a frontend. The solution (whenever we can start) is SANE 2 where we have a more flexible approach for transmitting image data to a frontend.

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

2005-02-22 Thread m. allan noah
> On Feb 22 09:16 m. allan noah wrote (shortened): >> i would like to see a few things done in the sane2 standard: > ... >> 3. more consistent config file interface for all backends > > I would appreciate this very much. > > At the moment all what the Suse scanner co

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

2005-02-22 Thread m. allan noah
>>> i would like to see a few things done in the sane2 standard: >>> 3. more consistent config file interface for all backends >> >> I would appreciate this very much. >> >> At the moment all what the Suse scanner config tool does is: >> a) show a list of model names made from the *.desc files >>

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

2005-02-23 Thread m. allan noah
t; > Johannes Meixner wrote: >> 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. &g

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 ju

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 ba

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

2005-02-24 Thread m. allan noah
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Julien BLACHE wrote: > Johannes Meixner wrote: > >>> I think it is constructive to say that some of the existing config >>> files are of no use today, and could be removed without any problem. >> >> Of course! >> I fully agree to get rid of stuff which is in fact not needed.

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

2005-02-24 Thread m. allan noah
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Julien BLACHE wrote: > "m. allan noah" wrote: > >> let me ask this: how many of the config files that must be kept are >> kept because they have scanner-specific information in them, as >> opposed to backend-specific information? >> &g

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

2005-02-24 Thread m. allan noah
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Oliver Rauch wrote: > Hello. > > I think there will be a possibility that the backend finds out what > scanner model talks to in almost all cases. Of course it is hard work to > find out what registers behave different to identify the models. But I > am pretty sure that in mos

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

2005-02-24 Thread m. allan noah
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Julien BLACHE wrote: > "m. allan noah" wrote: > >>> Don't you think that at least item 1 and 2 can be detected by the >>> backend ? >> >> yes for #1, no for #2 and #3. since some times the same 'model' is >&

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

2005-02-25 Thread m. allan noah
the problem with this is that doing the config as non-root would mean the backend would need elevated permissions in order to write its config out into /etc/... if the user is willing to run the front-end the first time as root, and then the backend saves the config changes, that might be ok. o

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

2005-02-25 Thread m. allan noah
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Johannes Meixner wrote: > > Hello, > > On Feb 25 09:16 m. allan noah wrote (shortened): >> the problem with this is that doing the config as non-root would mean the >> backend would need elevated permissions in order to write its config out into >&

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

2005-02-25 Thread m. allan noah
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Johannes Meixner wrote: > > Hello, > > On Feb 25 09:52 m. allan noah wrote (shortened): >> i think we want to hide the config file concept from the user >> if possible, rather than require someone to change the perms. > > It is not required t

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

2005-02-28 Thread m. allan noah
>> ... i personally dont have much problem with users being able >> to plug scanner into machine and make it >> work without root permissions ... > > Admins don't like it when normal users can plug in whatever > hardware and make it work. > Admins want to be able to define what the normal users are

[sane-devel] Scanner Button

2004-10-09 Thread m. allan noah
there has been much discussion in the past, but everyone seems too busy to actually get anything in writing. search the archives of the sane mailing list, there where several threads about it in the earlier part of this year, IIRC. basically: front end polling a backend via asking for updates

[sane-devel] feeder for scanner

2004-10-27 Thread m. allan noah
try searching the archives of this mailing list. this comes up every few months. allan On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote: > he...@pfinders.com wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I would like to buy a nice high end scanner that is supported >> that has a document feeder. Any suggestions? Any exp

[sane-devel] Help with compiler error

2004-10-28 Thread m. allan noah
umm, install a compiler package for your os? if you have one, and comfigure could not find it, then you either need to change your path. you might also need to see the CC= environment var if your compiler has a funny name. allan On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Bensel wrote: > We are trying to get a Memo

[sane-devel] Fujitsu 4530c Support

2004-11-04 Thread m. allan noah
i have not gotten my hands on one of these to try, and i dont currently have any documentation for it. i assume by its external appearance that it may share some with the 4120c, but i would not be surprised to find that it is very different chipset, since it is usb 2.0 IIRC. most fujitsu scsi s

[sane-devel] Fujitsu backend questions

2004-11-15 Thread m. allan noah
no on both questions i think. there is a scsi command to set a timer on the lamp, but the backend does not send this command. should not be too hard to add. i have not investigated auto paper sizing, but it seems that it would only work for width, and would involve perhaps taking a single scanl

[sane-devel] Fujitsu backend questions

2004-11-17 Thread m. allan noah
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Mattias Kregert wrote: > Oliver Schirrmeister wrote: >> >> There is an option 'sleeptimer'. I think it's the time in minutes(?) until >> the >> lamp is turned off. I've not tried it with the 4120. >> > > Ok, i tried it, and as far as I can see this option doesn't do anything

[sane-devel] Fail to detect the SCSI card

2004-11-22 Thread m. allan noah
dude, you need to buy a book on linux. there is no module called sg0 or sg1, etc. there is a module called just sg i am running FC2, kernel 2.6.8-1.521 and there already is a module for your scsi card: find /lib/modules/2.6.8-1.521/ | grep aha /lib/modules/2.6.8-1.521/kernel/drivers/scsi/aha154

[sane-devel] Duplex/ADF scanner recomendation

2004-11-24 Thread m. allan noah
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[sane-devel] sanei_usb and libusb_timeout

2004-12-01 Thread m. allan noah
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[sane-devel] sanei_usb and libusb_timeout

2004-12-01 Thread m. allan noah
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[sane-devel] 'scan' button

2004-12-23 Thread m. allan noah
rich, there has been a bit of discussion about how to handle buttons on scanners, though MFD's may be different if they use a separate usb interface for each function. Search the archives of this list for more detail. but i wonder, if the button issue was solved, how would your system know whi

[sane-devel] 'scan' button

2004-12-23 Thread m. allan noah
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, Rich Duzenbury wrote: > On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 09:52 -0500, m. allan noah wrote: >> rich, there has been a bit of discussion about how to handle buttons on >> scanners, though MFD's may be different if they use a separate usb >> interface for each fun

[sane-devel] Fujitsu fi-4120C USB timeouts

2005-05-04 Thread m. allan noah
simon, i guess you could say that i am maintaining the fujitsu backend, along with oliver s. i have seen the timeouts that you have reported, and find that they seem to have two root causes: 1. linux kernel doing something weird with the data0/1 usb toggle, 2. the firmware on the scanner gets co

[sane-devel] Nikon Coolscan III not recognised.

2005-05-17 Thread m. allan noah
try doing exactly what he told you :) SANE_DEBUG_COOLSCAN2=255 scanimage -L allan On Tue, 17 May 2005, john wrote: > I looked at sg0 & sg1 and all they contain is cdwriter nothing else. And "sane > debug coolscan2=255 scanimage -L" bash says command not found. > > On Tuesday 17 May 2005 02:04 a

[sane-devel] Nikon Coolscan III not recognised.

2005-05-17 Thread m. allan noah
jon, are you using caps on the SANE_DEBUG_COOLSCAN2 and the -L? cut and paste the command. allan On Tue, 17 May 2005, john wrote: > I looked at /dev/sg* and found nothing relating to the scanner there. > Otherwise the permissions there were okay. > Here is the output: > > [john@ip68-11-45-233 j

[sane-devel] microtek2 - libusb ?

2005-05-23 Thread m. allan noah
steven, do you have a trace of the windows operation of the device? if not get one using benoit's usbsniffer, and see if the RSS data block is not read from the other endpoint, and perhaps that is why you get nothing... allan On Sat, 21 May 2005, Steven Palm wrote: > OK, although I will need t

[sane-devel] libusb - problems with open/close of device in backend?

2005-05-23 Thread m. allan noah
steven, i see this exact problem with certain fujitsu scanners. the difficulty is that USB uses a 0/1 toggling bit during the data transmit phase. when libusb closes the device, the device should reset the toggle back to 0, the kernel does. subsequent transmissions should start with toggle set

[sane-devel] libusb - problems with open/close of device in backend?

2005-05-24 Thread m. allan noah
On Tue, 24 May 2005, stef wrote: > On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 01:18:59PM +0200, stef wrote: >> On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 02:52:27PM -0400, m. allan noah wrote: >>> steven, i see this exact problem with certain fujitsu scanners. the >>> difficulty is that USB uses a 0/1 t

[sane-devel] libusb - problems with open/close of device in backend?

2005-05-24 Thread m. allan noah
On Tue, 24 May 2005, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > "m. allan noah" writes: > >> steven, i see this exact problem with certain fujitsu scanners. > > It also manifests itself with several EPSON scanners as described in > > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermai

[sane-devel] libusb - problems with open/close of device in backend?

2005-05-24 Thread m. allan noah
e toggle problem. > > Kind regards, > Bertrik Sikken > > m. allan noah wrote: >> steven, i see this exact problem with certain fujitsu scanners. the >> difficulty is that USB uses a 0/1 toggling bit during the data transmit >> phase. when libusb closes the device, the d

[sane-devel] Fujitsu Backend Status.

2005-04-07 Thread m. allan noah
tyler, myself and oliver schirrmeister are maintaining the fujitsu backend. the support for the fi series is unfortunately limited, i have access to the 4x20 units, and oliver has at least touched one of the 5xxx units. i work on a proprietary app that uses the 4120, and i am currently re-writi

[sane-devel] Insights from a newbie backend writer...

2005-04-09 Thread m. allan noah
if it makes you feel any better, there are a dozen people on this list in the same boat. i dont know of any lawsuits that have occurred so far. in fact, the opposite might be more likely to be true, as vendors realize the utility of a package that means they dont have to write drivers for sever

[sane-devel] Need recomendation linux/sane compat scanner w/fast 2bit/greyscale ADF

2005-04-18 Thread m. allan noah
i only know fujitsu models, so i am sure there are others, but the fi-4120C2 is pretty fast, and the sane support is ok for binary and grayscale. scsi support is better than usb, but both work. it would be better if it had a flat adf instead of the vertical one, it does jam occasionally. the us

[sane-devel] Re: Need recomendation linux/sane compat scanner w/fast 2bit/greyscale ADF

2005-04-21 Thread m. allan noah
, 20 Apr 2005, Jeff Kowalczyk wrote: > m. allan noah wrote: >> i only know fujitsu models, so i am sure there are others, but the >> fi-4120C2 is pretty fast, and the sane support is ok for binary and >> grayscale. > > Thanks for the reply. The fujitsu models were my l

[sane-devel] Re: Good office scanners with ADF support?

2005-06-01 Thread m. allan noah
> > Or maybe there just aren't any good scanners with ADFs out there? > That seems unlikely. > depends entirely on how much you want to spend. i have been playing with the fujitsu fi-4120c for awhile. it still has some issues in the sane drivers that i have not been able to fix, mostly cause the

[sane-devel] MICR/OCR document scanner support ?

2005-06-03 Thread m. allan noah
it says OCR is done by software. this means it is likely able to take a traditional 'picture' of the document. this part could perhaps work under sane, if you have enough programming docs, or the ability to reverse engineer the windows driver. all the other things it does (reading micr, etc) an

[sane-devel] good adf scanners

2005-06-08 Thread m. allan noah
that is nice to hear. i bet you are using SCSI. the 4120C can get a little flaky on USB. its replacements, the 5110C and the 4120C2 seem much better in that regard. however, i have taken bertrik's advice and done some experiments where i keep throwing commands at the scanner until it responds.

[sane-devel] good adf scanners

2005-06-08 Thread m. allan noah
oh, and watch out for some of the cheaper fujitsus, like the fi-4110, it uses a completely different chipset, and is not supported by the fujitsu backend. some of the older scsi models use the sp15 or avision backends, i dont know much about those. allan -- "so don't tell us it can't be done,

[sane-devel] Programming getting a SIGSEGV

2005-06-20 Thread m. allan noah
mohit, perhaps you mean else { //now for color j++; } note the braces. allan On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Mohit Kumar wrote: > Hi All, > > I have the following piece of code: (kindly ignore the declarations..) > > options = sane_get_option_descriptor(handle, index); //index po

[sane-devel] Programming getting a SIGSEGV

2005-06-20 Thread m. allan noah
try running it under gdb and take a backtrace? allan On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Mohit Kumar wrote: > Sorry for the confusion Allan. But no its not the case. Rather it is > the following: > > else > { > //now for color >} >j++; > > Thanks, > Mo

[sane-devel] Batch Scanning.

2005-06-26 Thread m. allan noah
>> - >> Automatic Length Detection >> The 4097D automatically detects the end of a document as it passes >> through >> the paper path. Perfect for eliminating the extra white space when >> scanning mixed length batches of documents. >> - >> >> By the way, this is a nice scan

[sane-devel] Batch Scanning.

2005-06-27 Thread m. allan noah
>>> The problem is, the backend gives an "Invalid Option?" message that >> prevents >>> it from scanning when turning that feature on. >>> >>> I can send more verbose output if anyone is interested. >>> >>> Tyler. >> >> sorry tyler, i have not had a chance to even look at length detection. i >> >>

[sane-devel] scanimage: where's the _image_?

2005-06-27 Thread m. allan noah
uhm, this is unix. scanimage --options > file.pnm allan On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, David Morse wrote: > I'm trying to write a script to scan from the scanner and print the > result to the printer. > > "scanimage" looks like the command line way to scan an image. > Invoking it causes the scanner to sc

[sane-devel] network scanning

2005-06-27 Thread m. allan noah
try www.nslu2-linux.org its a pair of replacement linux-based os for a cheap linksys strong-arm box. allan On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, John (yt) Hogenmiller wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to setup a multi-function device (printer/scanner) to > work off of the network. I'm looking at an Epson Stylus C

[sane-devel] Fujitsu Fi-5110EOX2 USB with current Fujitsu SANE backend?

2005-07-06 Thread m. allan noah
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[sane-devel] ASPI & TWAIN debug logs

2005-07-16 Thread m. allan noah
gregory- what fujitsu scanner are you working with? i can get programming specs for most of their models, and at least for the scsi ones, they are good enough to make sure the sane driver works. windows dumps are helpful to see fujitsu's code in action, but actual docs can save alot of time...

[sane-devel] scanimage/saned segfault

2005-08-08 Thread m. allan noah
scott, not enough data from the debug logs there. with both the endianness and alignment issues of gcc on the slug, it could be a host of things. can you try doing some differences in color depth and resolution, and see if it is truly size based, or rather data size based. can you verify that y

[sane-devel] Scanning for VistA/ADF-scanner

2005-08-18 Thread m. allan noah
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Wolfram Heider wrote: > Guiseppe, > > Nancy meanwhile chose a Brother MFC 5440 CN (multi-functional device - cheap > but hmhm) and seems to be happy with it. > > Since ADF-scanners are of growing importance in daily work (not only in huge > digitalization-projects as that

[sane-devel] Umax Astra 2200 under OpenBSD?

2005-08-18 Thread m. allan noah
it also gets tiring when users want software to move forward and support more devices and systems, but they dont want to upgrade the software :) allan On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 alanco...@yahoo.com wrote: >> Your libusb is too old. 0.1.8 is minimum, 0.1.10a is >> current. I'll add >> that version numb

[sane-devel] scanning an entire A4 page under commandline

2005-08-30 Thread m. allan noah
Aldo- the options for paper size and scanning area are provided by the 'backend' which is a driver that talks to the scanner. scanimage is a 'frontend' which talks to you. try scanimage --help, which will tell the frontend to list all the options the backend provides. allan On Tue, 30 Aug 2005

[sane-devel] scanning an entire A4 page under commandline

2005-08-30 Thread m. allan noah
wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 10:12:56AM -0400, m. allan noah wrote: >> Aldo- the options for paper size and scanning area are provided by the >> 'backend' which is a driver that talks to the scanner. scanimage is a >> 'frontend' which talk

[sane-devel] Hopper support? - prepared to pay for enhancements

2005-09-07 Thread m. allan noah
phil- i think you need to look around a bit more. sane support for machines with ADF exists for many models. not sure about the Avision 820, but i have used the fujitsu sp15c with the avision backend, and its adf works. look at the options the backend provides using the command 'scanimage --he

[sane-devel] Re: HP 4570c - progress report

2005-09-19 Thread m. allan noah
> > One more question: I used a windows installation and snoopypro to get > a log of a preview scan - I'm missing the actual data?! Does snoopypro > not log the actual (image)data transfer? > > Thanks for your help! > >Daniel forget snoopypro. use benoit's usbsniffer. search this list for vari

[sane-devel] CanoScan LiDE20 - broken driver and so

2005-09-26 Thread m. allan noah
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 03:36:23PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: >> Dont think so. Of course we can assume that these packages only fit >> together with matching releases. >> >> The point is to get them built separately and put them into >

[sane-devel] problems with Fujitsu M3093DG with USB/SCSI

2005-10-11 Thread m. allan noah
that microtek usb to scsi adapter is a weird beast. it changes its usb interface based on whether it was plugged into the device or the host first. hence, those weird mass-storage devices it makes. try searching around for reviews of it online, some will surely mention the details. i wont have

[sane-devel] Looking for a developer

2005-10-13 Thread m. allan noah
Tom, most of the fujitsu scsi models are resonably well supported, and use very similar protocols to one another. fujitsu is also pretty good about giving out documents of the scanner internals. so, if you use one of theirs, its pretty easy to get them working, at least in a basic form. many o

[sane-devel] issue with scanning at higher resolutions

2005-10-17 Thread m. allan noah
if you scan with a higher dpi, there is more data to display. it may be possible for a front-end to be smart enough to scale the image to fit on your screen no matter the dpi, but this really has nothing to do with sane. i know for instance, that gqview has options to do just this... allan On

[sane-devel] issue with scanning at higher resolutions

2005-10-24 Thread m. allan noah
if you just want to scan them, only to resize them, then why not scan them at a lower res? wysiwg for size depends entirely on the size of your screen, and what res you are running at. not a simple thing for sane to work with. allan On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 jouth...@dds.nl wrote: > Well, my point

[sane-devel] Install problem with fi-4120C2 under FreeBSD and OS X 10.4.2

2005-11-02 Thread m. allan noah
mmitted a patch to cvs to use makedepend. it should do this. > Thanks for the help, > its not a good long-term fix, so be prepared to test something more permanent later... allan > On Nov 1, 2005, at 10:53 AM, m. allan noah wrote: > >> >> as a test, could

[sane-devel] Install problem with fi-4120C2 under FreeBSD and OS X 10.4.2

2005-11-02 Thread m. allan noah
hat line commented is no worse than it not working, like it was before :) if you did want to specify the color, you could not do it til this code is fixed. allan > Thanks again. > >> >> allan >> >> >>> On Nov 1, 2005, at 10:53 AM, m. allan noah wrote

[sane-devel] Install problem with fi-4120C2 under FreeBSD and OS X 10.4.2

2005-11-02 Thread m. allan noah
On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Darrell Styner wrote: > > On Nov 2, 2005, at 6:48 AM, m. allan noah wrote: > >>>> 1. no thats not normal, but it may be caused by lamp warm-up or some >>>> such. need more debug log info of what is going on during that pause. >>>&

[sane-devel] Install problem with fi-4120C2 under FreeBSD and OS X 10.4.2

2005-11-02 Thread m. allan noah
>> that said, the vertical paper path of these units does leave a bit to be >> desired, and i have been thinking of looking at some of the panasonic usb >> units that have the laser-jet like paper path. i cannot comment on their >> sane support. >> >> allan > > Thanks for the feedback. I've als

[sane-devel] Pb with HP officeJet 5510 + video capture card

2005-11-06 Thread m. allan noah
Pierre- i know nothing about your scanner, but the way sane works, the 'dll' backend controls what other, device specific backends get loaded each time you run a sane front-end program. try editing the dll.conf file on your box, and # out all the backends you are not using, and make sure the ba

[sane-devel] Re: Re: Re: epson 3490 - transparency unit problem

2005-11-14 Thread m. allan noah
Should it be due to my installation : I've make and installed the cvs code in /usr/local without uninstalling the debian version which is in /usr >>> In order to use Kooka (KDE scanner prog) I start it from a console with >>> >>> LD_PRELOAD=/usr/local/lib/libsane.so kooka >>

[sane-devel] Repost: HP Questions

2005-11-18 Thread m. allan noah
terr- you have too many different issues in one mail, and not enough info to actually help you. if you want help debugging your problems with the hp, you will need to give info about its model number, what os or distro you are using, what version of sane, what changed around the time the scanne

[sane-devel] USB scanner slow, hopping back and forward

2005-12-09 Thread m. allan noah
the slug is a little slow, esp. if there are multiple usb devices using the bus at the same time. there are also supposedly issues with usb2.0 hubs on the slug, though i dont remember the details. can you try on a full-sized linux pc? allan (sane and slug developer) On Fri, 9 Dec 2005 s...@rs

[sane-devel] strange thread code?

2004-01-06 Thread m. allan noah
On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Jaeger, Gerhard wrote: > Hi, > > On Mittwoch, 31. Dezember 2003 18:10, m. allan noah wrote: > > i am converting the fujitsu backend to use sanei_thread instead of fork. > > okay - good ;-) > > > > > in reading the threading code, i fo

[sane-devel] meaning of "--contrast" option to backend

2004-01-13 Thread m. allan noah
depends on the scanner. more expensive models will change the lut the a/d uses inside the scanner. cheaper models will do this in the backend. which scanner/backend are you using? allan On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Christopher Marshall wrote: > I was just curious if specifying a contrast argument to t

[sane-devel] scanners with document feeders

2004-01-15 Thread m. allan noah
my company does something similar to what you describe. we started out using scanimage called from a perl script to scan individual pages. but, we needed to monitor the status of various sensors and buttons in the hardware, which sane does not give access to. so now, we dont use sane, but for y

[sane-devel] scanners with document feeders

2004-01-15 Thread m. allan noah
as soon as i find a spare minute :) allan On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, avv. Giovanni Rocchi wrote: > Il giorno 15/gen/04, alle 17:19, m. allan noah ha scritto: > > > scanner we use is fujitsu fi-4120C it has scsi and usb 1.1 ports > > Allan: > Are you still converting fu

[sane-devel] Re: How to link the Scan Button of CX3100 to a linux application?

2004-01-27 Thread m. allan noah
this also is an issue for any other scanners that have buttons, esp. the adf models. unfortunately, i dont see a good way to handle multiple scanners, since a frontend would have to load and unload multiple backends many times per minute to monitor buttons... what about a simple frontend that f

[sane-devel] Re: How to link the Scan Button of CX3100 to a linux application?

2004-01-27 Thread m. allan noah
On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Bruce Bertrand wrote: > Till Kamppeter wrote: > > > I recommend that you post this on the SANE mailing list > > (http://www.sane-project.org/), as this is a scanning problem. I am > > CCing this posting to there. > > > > AFAIK noone has written a driver for scanner buttons

[sane-devel] Re: How to link the Scan Button of CX3100 to a linux application?

2004-01-27 Thread m. allan noah
On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Christopher Marshall wrote: > > > > not so simple as that. for machines with adf, you will usually have a > > couple other sensors like paper thickness, input or output hopper > > empty/full, cover open, lamp warm, etc. if the scanner sends all those as > > a bitmask in on

[sane-devel] Re: How to link the Scan Button of CX3100 to a linux application?

2004-01-28 Thread m. allan noah
On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Christopher Marshall wrote: > > you could have a flag to a front-end that told it to load the backend, but > > instead of scan, constantly check the option descriptor for a button's > > status. the front-end could print this, or even take a series of command > > line switch

[sane-devel] New release of sane-backends?

2003-10-03 Thread m. allan noah
i have done the first steps of modifying scanadf so that it uses the stiff.h library and can output tiff files as well as pnm. the problem is that stiff.h would need to be copied from sane-backends/frontends to sane-frontends where scanadf lives. the other option is to move scanadf into sane-ba

[sane-devel] HP ScanJet 4100C - assertion failed

2003-10-09 Thread m. allan noah
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Peter Kirchgessner wrote: > Hi, > > the debug log shows lots of times a "read failed. End of file reached". > Please try the current CVS-version of the hp-backend. I just added a > retry for that case. > > You can also try to get around the USB-scanner module and work direc

[sane-devel] Possible Fujitsu Driver Bug

2003-10-16 Thread m. allan noah
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Chris Chesney wrote: > Hello, > > First off, I am new to this list (I just subscribed today), but have > done a few searches without finding anything related to my problem. > > I have a Fujitsu 3091 scanner attached via SCSI to a RedHat 9 Compaq > Laptop. I'm running versio

[sane-devel] Mustek 600 solved.

2003-10-19 Thread m. allan noah
On Sun, 19 Oct 2003, richard hebert wrote: > Once i worked out a compile error i got on my > machine fujitsu backends would not compile. > so i deleted the reference in the backend Makefile > and it then compiled. > my fault. fixed in cvs now. allan -- "so don't tell us it can't be done, put

[sane-devel] OT: scanimage output format

2003-10-27 Thread m. allan noah
not possible to use png's progressive loading, cause it uses Adam7, which needs a low-resolution version of the image at the beginning of the file, followed by multiple (effectively) higher res versions. if your client is timing out, you could try sending them a redirect to keep the page refres

[sane-devel] Fujitsu M3093GD

2003-11-05 Thread m. allan noah
On 5 Nov 2003, Andi McLean wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using > red-hat 8.0 > sane-backends 1.0.12 > scanimage 1.0.12 > and a M3093GD > > Scanning the front of the document works perfectly but if I try to scan > the back page I get about 38 rows of blank image. If I try full duplex I > only get the fr

[sane-devel] Fujitsu M3093GD

2003-11-07 Thread m. allan noah
On 7 Nov 2003, Andi McLean wrote: > On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 08:57, Oliver Schirrmeister wrote: > > Am Mit, 2003-11-05 um 21.40 schrieb m. allan noah: > > > On 5 Nov 2003, Andi McLean wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > &g

[sane-devel] Fujitsu USB timeout issues

2003-11-13 Thread m. allan noah
There are several folks on this list (and cc'd) who have Fujitsu scanners. Most are SCSI, some are SCSI/USB models. Those trying to use their USB ports under linux have been seeing strange timeouts, for as long as usb support has been in the fujitsu backend. I think i might have found something

[sane-devel] Weiiiird colors

2003-11-14 Thread m. allan noah
perhaps old version of sane, i think this is fixed. try getting the sane 1.0.13 pre-release from the website and install it yourself. allan On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Mattias Kregert wrote: > Good evening > I have a kind of weird color problem... maybe someone here have an idea of > whats causin

[sane-devel] Re: Fujitsu USB timeout issues

2003-11-17 Thread m. allan noah
was there any sort of pattern to the timeouts? was the kernel scanner module loaded? on my system, if the device is freshly plugged in, and the scanner.o module has not been loaded (cause i removed it from the modules dir), i can run scanimage -d fujitsu --help over and over again, with no ti

[sane-devel] looking to buy a scanner

2003-11-25 Thread m. allan noah
joel, my company builds a distributed document scanning application, and we use the fujitsu fi-4120C at each site. have a couple dozen of them in the field, and they seem to work quite well. you need the latest sane cvs checkout to make the most of them, however, as support is somewhat new. fuj

[sane-devel] messed up HP6350 USB Scanje config?

2003-06-05 Thread m. allan noah
if you access the scanner via the /dev/* files under linux, you will need the scanner module inserted in your kernel. try 'insmod scanner' as root, then try sane-find-scanner again. currently, your system is accessing the scanner via libusb, if you wish to keep that instead, comment out the lin

[sane-devel] any drivers do software calibration?

2003-06-05 Thread m. allan noah
with the adf fujitsu scanners, in grayscale or color, we get fine, lightly colored lines as a part of the scanned image, and the 'background' behind the document when the scan window exceeeds the size of the paper looks mottled gray, as reported on this list. i can find no way in the interface

[sane-devel] any drivers do software calibration?

2003-06-05 Thread m. allan noah
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 02:59:04PM -0400, m. allan noah wrote: > > with the adf fujitsu scanners, in grayscale or color, we get fine, lightly > > colored lines as a part of the scanned image, > > Vertical li

[sane-devel] scanimage and scanadf command line args

2003-06-21 Thread m. allan noah
the options you are discussing are backend specific. with no scanner attached to the machine, if you run scanimage --help and scanadf --help, you will see nothing about scanning options, only input and output file, and file format. the threshold and paper size options are provided by the scanne

[sane-devel] page orientation for adfHow do I set my scanner

2003-06-22 Thread m. allan noah
you cant. use convert (part of ImageMagick) to '-flip -flop' or '-rotate 180' the images after you scan. allan On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Randolph Jones wrote: > how do i set my SP15c adf to scan from the bottom of the page? > The default requires me to put tje page in face down and head in. > If the

[sane-devel] Second draft of Scanner HOWTO for TLDP

2003-06-25 Thread m. allan noah
it seems to me, that if you want your document to be more future-proof, you would spend some more time talking about using libusb instead of the kernel scanner driver, which is likely to be removed in later kernels (as libusb becomes more stable) until then, i would likely re-name section 3 to

[sane-devel] HP 7450C USB scanner failure with ADF

2003-06-25 Thread m. allan noah
tom, did you do an 'rpm -e --force --nodeps sane-backends' first? when you compiled the new sane backends, did you do: =2E/configure --prefix=3D/usr --sysconfdir=3D/etc make make install if not, start with those two things. then we can be sure that the version= =20 of sane you are using is the o

[sane-devel] Getting Epson stylus CX5000 scanner working

2010-04-01 Thread m. allan noah
This scanner is listed as having good support by the epson and epson2 backends from sane-backends 1.0.20. Strangely, it is missing from epkowa and from the development version of epson2 (probably a .desc file error). What version of sane-backends are you running, and is epson2 (or epson) enabled i

[sane-devel] Getting Epson stylus CX5000 scanner working

2010-04-01 Thread m. allan noah
> Hash: SHA1 > > m. allan noah wrote: >> This scanner is listed as having good support by the epson and epson2 >> backends from sane-backends 1.0.20. Strangely, it is missing from >> epkowa and from the development version of epson2 (probably a .desc >> file error)

[sane-devel] scaner on HP LaserJet M1005 MFP

2010-04-07 Thread m. allan noah
perhaps related to kernel usb suspend settings to save power? What kernel version is this? Perhaps you can try to disable power management for this device (use the 'on' setting): http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/devices-power-management/usb.php allan On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 6:30 AM, viktor vrani

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