[sane-devel] Backend for plustek Opticbook 3600

2010-12-17 Thread Chris Berry
Hey stef, I see things seem to be progressing well with the lide 110, good times! I have recently had a problem with the account I set up the mailing list with so I have added this account instead. I doubt there will have been any progress on the plustek drivers, but as I've missed some of the

[sane-devel] Backend for plustek Opticbook 3600

2010-12-06 Thread Chris Berry
Chris, please go ahead. I think you could remove some of my Chris why comments where you know. Should the scanner be added also to the genesys.conf Definitely here and libsane.rules files? I have never entered in this file, what was the reason behind adding to it? Or at least what does it

[sane-devel] Backend for plustek Opticbook 3600

2010-12-06 Thread Chris Berry
Thanks Stef, a week is no problem for me, i'm pretty busy at work at the minute so a weeks time might work out best for all of us. Chris On 06/12/10 19:53, stef wrote: Le Monday 06 December 2010 15:54:44 Chris Berry, vous avez ?crit : Chris, please go ahead. I think you could remove some

[sane-devel] Backend for plustek Opticbook 3600

2010-12-06 Thread Chris Berry
Cheers Allan, Stef said hes gonna give the code a thorough look through in a week or so, should be plenty of time for the next release if it is around your proposed time. Thanks Chris On 06/12/10 15:08, m. allan noah wrote: On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Chris Berrys0457957 at sms.ed.ac.uk

[sane-devel] Backend for plustek Opticbook 3600

2010-03-30 Thread Chris Berry
Hi Stef, I take it that you have now received my preliminary copy of my report. I will send you a completed copy when I am done. I have a question about the image scans at 1200+ dpi. When attempting scans at these resolutions I only get half an image. A little investigation has led me to find

[sane-devel] Next release update

2010-03-22 Thread Chris Berry
I know this was discussed about 6 weeks ago but is there any update on when the next SANE release will be? Would be nice to know a rough date or at least if progress is being made Thanks Chris

[sane-devel] Backend for plustek Opticbook 3600

2010-03-22 Thread Chris Berry
stef wrote: Le lundi 22 mars 2010 07:26:23 Chris Berry, vous avez ?crit : Hi guys, I have included a patch for the plustek 3600. It isnt quite there yet but at least you can apply it to the current development version and should be able to test (for those of you with the scanner) to see

[sane-devel] Plustek OpticPro S28

2010-03-21 Thread Chris Berry
Le jeudi 18 mars 2010 07:21:10 Yevgeny Gromov, vous avez ?crit : Hi everyone! In archive I've read that some years ago someone have developed backend for Plustek OpticPro S28 based on GL841. Is there any alpha support for this scanner or should I write modification of sane-genesys

[sane-devel] Backend for plustek Opticbook 3600

2010-03-21 Thread Chris Berry
stef wrote: Hello, for the image quality, I think you could concentrate on on full sensor resolution and 'half ccd' resolution. I'm not sure what you mean but I guess full resolution is the maximum hardware resolution of the scanner? If so then what is 'half ccd' resolution?

[sane-devel] Backend for plustek Opticbook 3600

2010-03-18 Thread Chris Berry
Hello, in order to properly review the result of your hard work, we need the changes you done as patches. Either against the version you started to modify, or as a git patchset against latest version, which is the best solution. On your site, I only found the full sources, may

[sane-devel] Backend for plustek Opticbook 3600

2010-03-16 Thread Chris Berry
On 03/09/2010 05:15 AM, stef wrote: Le lundi 8 mars 2010 17:20:23 Chris Berry, vous avez ?crit : Ok Stef I have a bit more time to concentrate on this at the minute. I have updated the white_shading.pnm and included it at http://sites.google.com/site/bez625/updates-1/update080310

[sane-devel] Backend for plustek Opticbook 3600

2010-03-04 Thread Chris Berry
On 03/03/2010 06:03 AM, stef wrote: Le mardi 2 mars 2010 16:40:21 Chris Berry, vous avez ?crit : Hey guys, I resolved the issue I was having with the dark_shading calibration. The lamp was turning off fine but the | REG03_LAMPPWR in gl842_begin_scan was turning the light back

[sane-devel] Backend for plustek Opticbook 3600

2010-03-02 Thread Chris Berry
Hey guys, I resolved the issue I was having with the dark_shading calibration. The lamp was turning off fine but the | REG03_LAMPPWR in gl842_begin_scan was turning the light back on for the scan :/ . Having resolved this there is still a black line down the center of the page. The

[sane-devel] Backend for plustek Opticbook 3600

2010-02-24 Thread Chris Berry
Hey Stef, I think I have sorted out the white shading data but the black is still a mystery. I have uploaded some files to the project site (here http://sites.google.com/site/bez625/updates-1/update240210 ) these are at shading lines set to 400 but for the scan to work even a little bit I

[sane-devel] Backend for plustek Opticbook 3600

2010-02-24 Thread Chris Berry
On 02/24/2010 10:33 AM, Pierre Willenbrock wrote: stef schrieb: Le mercredi 24 f?vrier 2010 03:00:16 Chris Berry, vous avez ?crit : Hey Stef, I think I have sorted out the white shading data but the black is still a mystery. I have uploaded some files to the project site (here

[sane-devel] Backend for plustek Opticbook 3600

2010-02-23 Thread Chris Berry
stef wrote: Le lundi 22 f?vrier 2010 15:09:11, vous avez ?crit : On 02/22/2010 06:43 AM, stef wrote: Le lundi 22 f?vrier 2010 02:09:14 Chris Berry, vous avez ?crit : ... Hey Stef, Thanks for the awk script, helped a lot. I put the values into a spreadsheet and got

[sane-devel] Backend for plustek Opticbook 3600

2010-02-22 Thread Chris Berry
Hey Stef, I think I have isolated the gamma tables from the logs but there is a significant difference; the gamma tables all seem to be sent at once to the scanner. Regs 0x5b and 0x5c are both set to 0x00 and 1536 bytes are sent to the scanner. I have attached the log file appearances of the

[sane-devel] Backend for plustek Opticbook 3600

2010-02-22 Thread Chris Berry
On 02/22/2010 06:43 AM, stef wrote: Le lundi 22 f?vrier 2010 02:09:14 Chris Berry, vous avez ?crit : Hey Stef, I think I have isolated the gamma tables from the logs but there is a significant difference; the gamma tables all seem to be sent at once to the scanner. Regs 0x5b and 0x5c

[sane-devel] Backend for plustek Opticbook 3600

2010-02-20 Thread Chris Berry
On 02/12/2010 08:47 AM, stef wrote: Le jeudi 11 f?vrier 2010 19:50:25, vous avez ?crit : Hello, I am facing the same issues than you while adding support for the HP3670. I eventually found that one of my decoding script was buggy and hide most of AFE accesses. I have appended

[sane-devel] Backend for plustek Opticbook 3600

2010-02-20 Thread Chris Berry
Hello, regarding the gamma values you can extract the gamma tables sent to your scanner by the windows driver from USB logs. Put them in a spreadsheet, then you can insert the formula used by the genesys backend and compare the reference and generated curves. I am not sure

[sane-devel] Backend for plustek Opticbook 3600

2010-02-11 Thread Chris Berry
Hello, I am facing the same issues than you while adding support for the HP3670. I eventually found that one of my decoding script was buggy and hide most of AFE accesses. I have appended the fixed version. By decoding usbsnoop again, you may find more AFE writes to be coded

[sane-devel] Backend for plustek Opticbook 3600

2010-02-09 Thread Chris Berry
Ok so ive managed to fix the problem with the FLAG being set, the REG01_DVDSET part was screwing me up, so im not sure what that was about... More details are here http://sites.google.com/site/bez625/updates-1/update090210 with a new attachment of the scanning image. The scans now have a red

[sane-devel] Backend for plustek Opticbook 3600

2010-02-09 Thread Chris Berry
Yea thanks guys for all the support so far, if you are interested there are scans available on the project website. As soon as the brightness/red colour is sorted i should (hopefully) be in a position to release to the development. From reading the lists I think we are probably going to be

[sane-devel] Backend for plustek Opticbook 3600

2010-02-07 Thread Chris Berry
Hey Stef, did you manage to have a look at the patch I sent you? I havent had much time to look at the project over the last few days so not much has happened, i'm still getting black scans from the scanner when I remove the NO_CALIBRATION flag. Have you any idea which function will be causing

[sane-devel] Backend for plustek Opticbook 3600

2010-02-03 Thread Chris Berry
On 02/02/2010 05:29 AM, stef wrote: Le lundi 1 f?vrier 2010 13:52:30 Chris Berry, vous avez ?crit : On 01/31/2010 09:21 PM, stef wrote: Le dimanche 31 janvier 2010 20:30:58 Chris Berry, vous avez ?crit : Ok Stef, ignore that last email, I just got a scan! its far from

[sane-devel] Backend for plustek Opticbook 3600

2010-02-01 Thread Chris Berry
On 01/31/2010 09:21 PM, stef wrote: Le dimanche 31 janvier 2010 20:30:58 Chris Berry, vous avez ?crit : Ok Stef, ignore that last email, I just got a scan! its far from perfect but im on the right road at least (mostly your advice ;) ). One of my GPIO wasnt set correctly and you were

[sane-devel] Backend for plustek Opticbook 3600

2010-01-31 Thread Chris Berry
On 01/31/2010 01:11 PM, stef wrote: Le samedi 30 janvier 2010 15:29:50 Chris Berry, vous avez ?crit : Hello, the function you wrote is fine. What I wanted to share is that it is easier to do experiments from within a really simple test program than the full blown scanimage

[sane-devel] Backend for plustek Opticbook 3600

2010-01-31 Thread Chris Berry
Ok Stef, ignore that last email, I just got a scan! its far from perfect but im on the right road at least (mostly your advice ;) ). One of my GPIO wasnt set correctly and you were right about the bit 8 being set on the control reg of the AFE. An upload of the image is at

[sane-devel] Backend for plustek Opticbook 3600

2010-01-30 Thread Chris Berry
On 01/30/2010 01:40 PM, stef wrote: Le jeudi 28 janvier 2010 11:26:56 Chris Berry, vous avez ?crit : No stef im almost certain this isnt a Wolfson, from an old project page I think it is an Analog Digital 9826 Link: http://www.analog.com/en/audiovideo-products/cameracamcorder-analog

[sane-devel] Backend for plustek Opticbook 3600

2010-01-28 Thread Chris Berry
Hey stef, i'm really struggling to work out what all these frontend writes are for. Below is a grep of the frontends from a scan, I have done several scans and they all roughly follow this format. I'm not sure why the offset (regs 05 - 07) have values 0x80 and 0xff and the values for both

[sane-devel] Backend for plustek Opticbook 3600

2010-01-28 Thread Chris Berry
No stef im almost certain this isnt a Wolfson, from an old project page I think it is an Analog Digital 9826 Link: http://www.analog.com/en/audiovideo-products/cameracamcorder-analog-front-ends/ad9826/products/product.html I too am puzzled why there are so many writes to the frontend, the

[sane-devel] Backend for plustek Opticbook 3600

2010-01-24 Thread Chris Berry
stef wrote: Le vendredi 22 janvier 2010 17:57:06 Chris Berry, vous avez ?crit : Hey Stef, I had to take a little time off the front end stuff to do some documentation but Im looking at it again now. Like you im fairly certain everything else is set, could you share with me a snoop

[sane-devel] Backend for plustek Opticbook 3600

2010-01-15 Thread Chris Berry
pointers are greatly appreciated Thanks Chris On 01/15/2010 01:10 PM, stef wrote: Le jeudi 14 janvier 2010 17:47:41 Chris Berry, vous avez ?crit : Ok quick update, I have managed to get the lamp on during scans! The reason it was failing is because reg[0x01] was hard coded to CIS type

[sane-devel] Backend for plustek Opticbook 3600

2010-01-14 Thread Chris Berry
Ok I have set the values for the 0x6b and im still getting a completely black scan but the lamp is being turned off at the start of a scan. When the scanner is plugged in the light is ON and when i start a scan the light is immediately turned off. The init reg is definitely sending the correct

[sane-devel] Backend for plustek Opticbook 3600

2010-01-14 Thread Chris Berry
Ok quick update, I have managed to get the lamp on during scans! The reason it was failing is because reg[0x01] was hard coded to CIS type and this is a CCD scanner. Hopefully this means that all I have to do is polish up the remaining register values at init time. Currently the light is on

[sane-devel] Backend for plustek Opticbook 3600

2010-01-08 Thread Chris Berry
break through for this project :) Chris stef wrote: Le jeudi 7 janvier 2010 15:14:20 Chris Berry, vous avez ?crit : Hi Stef, I have updates on this project at http://sites.google.com/site/bez625/updates-1/update070110 with some attachments. I am still struggling to work out why the scan

[sane-devel] Backend for plustek Opticbook 3600

2010-01-07 Thread Chris Berry
Hi Stef, I have updates on this project at http://sites.google.com/site/bez625/updates-1/update070110 with some attachments. I am still struggling to work out why the scan lamp is off during scanning. My thoughts are that maybe the genesys backend is saying the lamp sleep mode if on before

[sane-devel] Backend for plustek Opticbook 3600

2010-01-07 Thread Chris Berry
lol no worries Jan, hopefully I can get the scanner working soon for you :) Chris On 01/07/2010 04:25 PM, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: On Thu, 2010-01-07 14:14:20 +, Chris Berrys0457957 at sms.ed.ac.uk wrote: I have updates on this project at

[sane-devel] Backend for plustek Opticbook 3600

2009-12-30 Thread Chris Berry
/2009 07:46 AM, stef wrote: Le jeudi 24 d?cembre 2009 06:07:23 Chris Berry, vous avez ?crit : Just a quick update, I had to take a little time off from the project but I should be able to work on it more now. I have an update at http://sites.google.com/site/bez625/updates-1/update with new

[sane-devel] Backend for plustek Opticbook 3600

2009-12-24 Thread Chris Berry
Just a quick update, I had to take a little time off from the project but I should be able to work on it more now. I have an update at http://sites.google.com/site/bez625/updates-1/update with new log files for smaller scan and preview snoops. Stef is there any chance you could explain the

[sane-devel] Backend for plustek Opticbook 3600

2009-12-09 Thread Chris Berry
?cembre 2009 19:30:15 Chris Berry, vous avez ?crit : Ok I have managed to use SniffUSB to extract some data during the calibration and preview stages, there is too much to post here but im not sure how to interpret it. I have tried usb-robot but am struggling to get it working (it tells me

[sane-devel] Backend for plustek Opticbook 3600

2009-12-07 Thread Chris Berry
is installed?). Any advice of where to go from here would be great :) Thanks Chris On 12/06/2009 10:07 PM, stef wrote: Le dimanche 6 d?cembre 2009 20:18:17 Chris Berry, vous avez ?crit : Thanks for the info Stef, I have run sane-find-scanner on the scanner and it confirms that the chipset

[sane-devel] Backend for plustek Opticbook 3600

2009-12-06 Thread Chris Berry
Thanks for the info Stef, I have run sane-find-scanner on the scanner and it confirms that the chipset is indeed GL482. I was under the impression the Genesys backend was for GL481, does it support GL482 as well? Thanks Chris -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered

[sane-devel] Backend for plustek Opticbook 3600

2009-12-04 Thread Chris Berry
Hello, As part of a project I am currently undertaking I am creating support for the opticbook 3600 under linux. It seems the best approach to this is to create a SANE backend for the scanner. After reading the available documentation I am of the understanding that I should post to this