[sane-devel] libsane-epson missing, presumed dead

2014-10-07 Thread Mark Ballard
Dear Sane Devs (isn't that some sort of misnomer?) I'm writing to let you know about problems with libsane-epson. All enquiries I have pursued on this lead to the Epson website. But the Epson website which seems not to have the drivers for download. I've emailed Epson about this. But meanwhile,

[sane-devel] sane manpage out of date

2014-10-07 Thread Mark Ballard
Dear Sane Devs The sane-epson manpage is sending users up a dead-end alley. It says: Please send mail to the backend author (k...@khk.net) to report ... problems with scanners that are listed. And it says: The package is actively maintained by Karl Heinz Kremer (k...@khk.net). I emailed the

[sane-devel] Need to get Canon P208 scanner working on Raspberry Pi

2014-10-07 Thread Moritz Maier
Hi, I have a Canon P208 scanner and I cant get it working on my Raspberry Pi, i.e. on ARM architecture. Can anybody help me or provide a quick solution? I need to get it running very badly. Ive already tried the rasbian wheezy packages sane, libsane, libsane-extras, sane-utils, cups, xsane.

Re: [sane-devel] libsane-epson missing, presumed dead

2014-10-07 Thread m. allan noah
On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Mark Ballard markjball...@googlemail.com wrote: Dear Sane Devs (isn't that some sort of misnomer?) I'm writing to let you know about problems with libsane-epson. All enquiries I have pursued on this lead to the Epson website. But the Epson website which seems

Re: [sane-devel] sane manpage out of date

2014-10-07 Thread m. allan noah
The manpage you pointed to suggests you are using sane-backends 1.0.19? You might find that the more recent epson2 backend meets your needs. Epson2 has been the default for a few years now, and the original epson backend is disabled by default. Note that we also accept patches from users to fix

Re: [sane-devel] Need to get Canon P208 scanner working on Raspberry Pi

2014-10-07 Thread m. allan noah
please run the following on your Pi: SANE_DEBUG_CANON_DR=30 scanimage -L 2p208.log then send me directly the p208.log allan On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Moritz Maier moritz.andreas.ma...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I have a Canon P208 scanner and I can't get it working on my Raspberry Pi, i.e. on

Re: [sane-devel] sane manpage out of date

2014-10-07 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Mark Ballard writes: Dear Sane Devs The sane-epson manpage is sending users up a dead-end alley. Indeed, it does. The NEWS file mentions that the epson backend was deprecated in 1.0.20 (released 5 years, 5 months and 5 days ago). You should be using the epson2 backend instead. This backend

Re: [sane-devel] libsane-epson missing, presumed dead

2014-10-07 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Mark Ballard writes: Dear Sane Devs (isn't that some sort of misnomer?) I'm writing to let you know about problems with libsane-epson. All enquiries I have pursued on this lead to the Epson website. But the Epson website which seems not to have the drivers for download. I've emailed Epson

Re: [sane-devel] sane manpage out of date

2014-10-07 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
m. allan noah writes: The manpage you pointed to suggests you are using sane-backends 1.0.19? You might find that the more recent epson2 backend meets your needs. Epson2 has been the default for a few years now, and the original epson backend is disabled by default. Note that we also accept