[sane-devel] Camera drivers needed.

2009-02-20 Thread kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Theo Tulley wrote: I have just bought a Digital Microscope (from Maplin) which works fine on my laptop with Windows XP-Pro, but the provided software doesn't work with LinuxMint-6 which is the only system on my PC, where I would get a larger image. Please, how can I

[sane-devel] Slightly off topic: Anyone know anything about SCSI CD commands?

2009-01-06 Thread kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu
On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Gerard Klaver wrote: On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 17:24 -0600, kilgota at banach.math.auburn.edu wrote: Wishing everyone a prosperous, happy, and peaceful year 2009. For a lark, I bought a rather worthless but very cheap gadget for myself for Christmas. It is a very small

[sane-devel] A keychain digital picture frame. (fwd)

2009-01-06 Thread kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu
-0600 (CST) From: kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu To: usb-storage at lists.one-eyed-alien.net Subject: A keychain digital picture frame. I wonder if anyone has ever encountered something like this. If not, then it is a curious little thing, It is a small digital picture frame which will hold

[sane-devel] A keychain digital picture frame. (fwd)

2009-01-06 Thread kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu
On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, m. allan noah wrote: willing to bet the read only cdrom is just to hold the autoloader so windows will run it, and the real key is the vendor defined c1 command. You will have to get logs while uploading some solid color images, and see if you can figure the image

[sane-devel] A keychain digital picture frame. (fwd)

2009-01-06 Thread kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu
On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, m. allan noah wrote: On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:42 PM, kilgota at banach.math.auburn.edu wrote: On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, m. allan noah wrote: willing to bet the read only cdrom is just to hold the autoloader so windows will run it, and the real key is the vendor defined c1

[sane-devel] A keychain digital picture frame. (fwd)

2009-01-06 Thread kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu
On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, m. allan noah wrote: Incidentally, c1h is not mentioned in s2-r10l.pdf. yes it is- it is listed in the vendor (un-)defined list :) It is a long document. A search turned up absolutely nothing. because it is in a range- C0h should show up... Thanks. allan -- The

[sane-devel] Slightly off topic: Anyone know anything about SCSI CD commands?

2009-01-05 Thread kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu
to find relevant documentation. I hope that someone can help me with the question. Theodore Kilgore -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 12:57:13 -0600 (CST) From: kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu To: Pete Zaitcev zaitcev at redhat.com Cc: usb-storage at lists.one-eyed

[sane-devel] Qyestion about usb packet logging

2008-12-21 Thread kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu
I have had some problems recently with usbsnoop (sniff-bin-1.8) which I wonder if anyone else has encountered and, if so, whether any workarounds are known: 1. Contents of the window wherein the hardware is listed and one can choose to install or uninstall are jumping or flickering

[sane-devel] Qyestion about usb packet logging

2008-12-21 Thread kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu
On Sun, 21 Dec 2008, m. allan noah wrote: all three problems solved: http://www.pcausa.com/Utilities/UsbSnoop/ allan But will that new version run on Win2K? Says there it will not. Of course, if that is the only solution I guess I have to do it. Theodore Kilgore

[sane-devel] HP LaserJet CM1312nfi CC431A printer/scanner/fax

2008-11-21 Thread kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu
On Fri, 21 Nov 2008, m. allan noah wrote: did you try asking the hplip guys? No. But I would be glad to do so. Can anyone help me with an appropriate contact address? Theodore Kilgore allan On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:06 AM, kilgota at banach.math.auburn.edu wrote: My wife's oldest

[sane-devel] USB problems - [wasno devices available]

2008-06-21 Thread kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu
Hi, Don't know about the scanner, but I do know a bit about the internals of libgphoto2. The problem with the scanner is most probably similar to what appears to happen with the camera: With approximately 99% probability, I would say that your problem with the camera is a permissions problem.

[sane-devel] USB problems - [wasno devices available]

2008-06-21 Thread kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu
Well, it seems that you are well on the way to solving the problems. What you have to do about the camera ought to be quite similar to what you have to do about the scanner. The reason why I cannot give you more specific advice is that I have no idea of the way that Hardy Heron is setting up

[sane-devel] Please give me some help to solve the license issues in using sane

2008-06-10 Thread kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu
On Tue, 10 Jun 2008, m. allan noah wrote: On 6/10/08, Daniel Gl?ckner daniel-gl at gmx.net wrote: Hello Wang Mengqiang, On 10 Jun 08 16:24, Wang Mengqiang wrote: For example, you are building the high-way, as we are talking about writing drivers, a more obvious analogy comes to

[sane-devel] Please give me some help to solve the license issues in using sane

2008-06-10 Thread kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu
(Quote) They even say: --- If the program is already written using the non-free library, perhaps it is too late to change the decision. You may as well release the program as it stands, rather than not release it.

[sane-devel] Please give me some help to solve the license issues in using sane

2008-06-08 Thread kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu
And here we see the problem, in a nutshell. My own course is quite similar to Allan's, though I do my work for another project. I think that what is going to have to happen, ultimately, is that some of these hardware manufacturers are going to see if they can find a competitive advantage by

[sane-devel] Please give me some help to solve the license issues in using sane

2008-06-08 Thread kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu
On Sun, 8 Jun 2008, m. allan noah wrote: On 6/8/08, kilgota at banach.math.auburn.edu kilgota at banach.math.auburn.edu wrote: [...] Canon is a very big company, where one hand may not know what another hand is doing. I personally have spent the last couple of years negotiating an NDA

[sane-devel] Please give me some help to solve the license issues in using sane

2008-06-06 Thread kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu
On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Wang Mengqiang wrote: Theodore Kilgore, Thank you for your ardent reply. I feel your earnest expectation to improve the communication with hardware manufacture. But, very sorry, I am afraid I have no ability to take this responsibility. Thank you sharing the

[sane-devel] Please give me some help to solve the license issues in using sane

2008-06-05 Thread kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu
Wang Mengqiang, I am not one of the regular SANE developers, but I am quite active in another, similar project, Gphoto, which supports digital still cameras. I find this thread interesting because it raises issues which affect us all. I hope very much that the SANE developers will not mind if

[sane-devel] Scanner with SQ chip

2008-05-23 Thread kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu
Sorry, I deleted the message which mentions this, by mistake. But just in case it would help, I have supported several camera chips from SQ. In case that anyone intends to pursue the business of scanners running the SQ113(is this the right number, I forget?), it is obviously possible that

[sane-devel] artec e+pro- vertical lines- some samples

2008-01-13 Thread kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, m. allan noah wrote: On 1/12/08, kilgota at banach.math.auburn.edu wrote: What I see in these images is, something like what I suspected could be a possibility, or it could be something else. well, that about covers all the possibilites :) Yep. We should never

[sane-devel] artec e+pro- vertical lines- some samples

2008-01-12 Thread kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu
On Sat, 12 Jan 2008, Philip Aston wrote: Yes I agree it was REALLY stupid but the penny dropped (about the black hat and the spam or worse) immediately after that email, so I changed the password, before sending the retraction in (my next email), thats why no-one could access the account.

[sane-devel] Artec E+pro almost working

2008-01-09 Thread kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Philip Aston wrote: Listed as minimal support. With the artec firmware 1200.usb installed, this scanner works with 2 bugs: 1 crashes @ 1200dpi, ok other resolutions- 2 probably more important, there are slight discolorations, the colour is reproduced but slightly

[sane-devel] The future of the SANE-Standard

2007-12-25 Thread kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu
On Tue, 25 Dec 2007, Alessandro Zummo wrote: On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 13:19:58 -0600 (CST) kilgota at banach.math.auburn.edu wrote: Still subscribed to your list after all these years, since the time that the Canon N640U came out. As you are debating about SVN, I thought I might share some of

[sane-devel] The future of the SANE-Standard

2007-12-24 Thread kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu
On Mon, 24 Dec 2007, Alessandro Zummo wrote: On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 15:36:09 +0100 Julien BLACHE jb at jblache.org wrote: m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com wrote: can we have both svn and cvs enabled at the same time? if not, we would have to migrate... I think we can, but migrating is

[sane-devel] How is it that I am a non-subscriber to sane-devel?

2007-01-08 Thread kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu
when I am a long-time subscriber and get every month an automated e-mail about that? I don't understand, and I don't understand just what steps I am supposed to take to correct that, when I am already a subscriber. Advice, please? Theodore Kilgore

[sane-devel] anyone dealt with any chips from Jeilin Technologies?

2006-12-19 Thread kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu
Hi, Greetings from gphoto. We just got someone with an Argus DC-1512e write in to us. The camera reports itself as 0x0979:0x0227 and from mfgr. Jeilin. I went to the website of Jeilin, and they also claim to make scanner chips. Thus, just in case I end up getting involved in supporting this

[sane-devel] Getting Clever CAM 360 working

2005-09-18 Thread kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu
is the method to test this to see if I can gain access to the pictures in the camera? Thanks, -Martin kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Martin wrote: I don't have this folder on my system, libgphoto2/camlibs/ Does something have to be installed to have it? Well

[gphoto-devel] Re: { SPAM 1 }::Re: [sane-devel] Getting Clever CAM 360 IS NOW WORKING PARTIALLY - running gphoto2 version 2.1.6

2005-09-18 Thread kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Martin wrote: I got this camera communicating with gphoto2 but the pictures are very under exposed. When I had my work laptop running Windoze XP, there were proper exposure and clear to view and print. So I'm not sure why the pictures are low brightness - and also

[gphoto-devel] Re: { SPAM 1 }::Re: [sane-devel] Getting Clever CAM 360 IS NOW WORKING PARTIALLY - running gphoto2 version 2.1.6

2005-09-18 Thread kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu
On Sat, 17 Sep 2005, Martin wrote: I realize that all of this is guessing experimental work, and so I greatly appreciate all of your input, ideas and suggestions. This is what the greater open source community is all about. I have a learned a lot from this discussion group that I never

[sane-devel] Getting Clever CAM 360 IS NOW WORKING PARTIALLY - running gphoto2 version 2.1.6

2005-09-18 Thread kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu
Martin, Thanks for letting us know that the photo was mirrored, and thanks for sending me the raw version of the photo. It came out pretty much the same as it should for me, after I did the following special steps while converting to PPM format: Vertical flip (byte-reversal of entire image)

[sane-devel] Getting Clever CAM 360 working

2005-09-15 Thread kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Martin wrote: First off, I noticed that when I execute gphoto2 it is running from 2.1.0 version. After doing make and make install of version 2.1.6, where is the executable of gphoto2 installed that I can run from that version? gphoto2 and libgphoto2 are two

[sane-devel] Getting Clever CAM 360 working

2005-09-14 Thread kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu
On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Martin wrote: The camera is identified as, idVendor 0x0797 Grandtech Semiconductor Corp. idProduct 0x8001 SmartCam Hmmm. I will make some comments, about the output of lsusb -v, below. The camera _may_ work with an existing driver, but it is not obvious that it

[sane-devel] Getting Clever CAM 360 working

2005-09-14 Thread kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Martin wrote: I installed libgphoto2-2.1.6. Edited the source file pdc640.c in the directory, libgphoto2-2.1.6/camlibs/polaroid/ and added the lines, {Clever CAM 360, 0x797, 0x8001, { jd350e, BAYER_TILE_BGGR, jd350e_postprocessing_and_flip, scope%04i.ppm } },

[sane-devel] Getting Clever CAM 360 working

2005-09-10 Thread kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu
Martin, Gerard has given you very good advice. Permit me to expand on it a bit. Also feel free to contact me personally, after checking whether your camera is mass-storage and after comparing it to the gphoto2 list of supported cameras (go to gphoto.org to see that list). If it is not

[sane-devel] Canon N670U:merlin670-V0.01 developers release

2002-01-31 Thread kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu
This works. I got a scan out of it. Further remarks: 1. apparently I had to rmmod scanner first, or it was unhappy. 2. I had to run the program as root 3. It didn't want somehow to create the temporary file n670u.raw, but after I did touch n670u.raw it went right ahead and did the scan and