[sane-devel] Epson Stylus CX5500 Scanner

2008-04-24 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Johannes Meixner jsmeix at suse.de writes: On Apr 23 21:01 Garry B wrote (shortened): I am running OpenSuse 10.3 can't get an Epson scanner to work. The scanner is an Epson CX5500 multi-function. See http://www.sane-project.org/cgi-bin/driver.pl?manu=epsonmodel=CX5500 openSUSE 10.3

[sane-devel] Calling a script after USB scanner is plugged

2008-04-24 Thread Johannes Meixner
Hello, On Apr 23 22:53 Rainer Dorsch wrote: Am Mittwoch, 23. April 2008 schrieb Julien BLACHE: Johannes Meixner jsmeix at suse.de wrote: Hi, umax1220u scripts are started in a sequence (i.e. not in parallel, when one is completed the next one starts). When troubleshooting udev

[sane-devel] incompatible iscan-2.11.0

2008-04-24 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Johannes Meixner jsmeix at suse.de writes: Hello, Hi Johannes, I've kept my quiet for a while on purpose. You Cc:d the sane-devel list and that means I have to watch out (even more) with what I say. My activities on sane-devel are not always equally appreciated in all quarters. As always,

[sane-devel] incompatible iscan-2.11.0

2008-04-24 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Julien BLACHE jb at jblache.org writes: Johannes Meixner jsmeix at suse.de wrote: Hi, Perhaps it leads to the solution that the Linux distributors agree to no longer distribute their proprietary stuff? That would be a good first step... That said, I have never distributed anything else

[sane-devel] incompatible iscan-2.11.0

2008-04-24 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Julien BLACHE jb at jblache.org writes: Johannes Meixner jsmeix at suse.de wrote: But again it is only a proprietary model - shit happens - go to Epson Avasys issue. Unfortunately sooner or later it'll land in my mailbox :| I wonder how Epson Avasys supports this case. They don't is my

[sane-devel] incompatible iscan-2.11.0

2008-04-24 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Johannes Meixner jsmeix at suse.de writes: On Apr 23 17:04 m. allan noah wrote (shortened): On 4/23/08, Julien BLACHE jb at jblache.org wrote: Well, without the non-free bits it provides better support for some scanner, and supports devices no other backend supports :) which scanners

[sane-devel] incompatible iscan-2.11.0

2008-04-24 Thread Johannes Meixner
Hello Olaf, first of all many thanks for your answers. Of course I know that it is not and never was you who is responsible for the mess with the proprietary parts in IScan. I hope I made it sufficiently clear that the management of Epson or Avaysy is responsible for the mess, in particular

[sane-devel] incompatible iscan-2.11.0

2008-04-24 Thread Alessandro Zummo
On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:50:45 +0900 Olaf Meeuwissen olaf.meeuwissen at avasys.jp wrote: Johannes, when did you ask? I can add the firmware files to the epkowa.desc file if you want but it would be nice if there were some extra fields (or a mechanism for custom fields, something like the X-*

[sane-devel] incompatible iscan-2.11.0

2008-04-24 Thread Alessandro Zummo
On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:05:32 +0900 Olaf Meeuwissen olaf.meeuwissen at avasys.jp wrote: Not yet. There are plans to at least provide updated plugins for the more recent models. Exactly which ones and when they will be released is up in the air. what's changed between the old and the new

[sane-devel] incompatible iscan-2.11.0

2008-04-24 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Alessandro Zummo azummo-lists at towertech.it writes: On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:05:32 +0900 Olaf Meeuwissen olaf.meeuwissen at avasys.jp wrote: Not yet. There are plans to at least provide updated plugins for the more recent models. Exactly which ones and when they will be released is up in

[sane-devel] incompatible iscan-2.11.0

2008-04-24 Thread Johannes Meixner
Hello, On Apr 24 16:50 Olaf Meeuwissen wrote (shortened): Johannes and I discussed the format of the comment entries after he started using what I had started adding on a voluntary basis. I was happy to know that the information was useful. Many thanks again! Yes, such information is more

[sane-devel] incompatible iscan-2.11.0

2008-04-24 Thread Alessandro Zummo
On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:44:42 +0900 Olaf Meeuwissen olaf.meeuwissen at avasys.jp wrote: Well, there's only one new plugin at the moment, but we've added support for high resolutions (3200dpi) to iscan. On the backend side that means we are setting the horizontal and vertical resolutions

[sane-devel] incompatible iscan-2.11.0

2008-04-24 Thread m. allan noah
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 2:20 AM, Johannes Meixner jsmeix at suse.de wrote: Hello, On Apr 23 17:04 m. allan noah wrote (shortened): On 4/23/08, Julien BLACHE jb at jblache.org wrote: Well, without the non-free bits it provides better support for some scanner, and supports

[sane-devel] incompatible iscan-2.11.0

2008-04-24 Thread Alessandro Zummo
On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:33:48 -0400 m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com wrote: no- go back and re-read my question. i want to know what models are supported by free software in epkowa backend, but not in epson/epson2 backend. given that epkowa started from epson, I'd hope there is none. --

[sane-devel] (no subject)

2008-04-24 Thread Guillaume Gastebois
Hello, Is there a possibility to determine a maximum of parameter like : typedef struct { int optical_res; (OK, for me 2400) int black_pixels;(don't know how to determine) int dummy_pixel; (content of 0x34 ?) int CCD_start_xoffset; (test of page

[sane-devel] Doubt about sane_get_devices

2008-04-24 Thread tobias alarcon
Hi all Im just wanna know if this function retrives the list of devices at every moment. Let me explain, i launch my program with the scanner disconected, then i conect it and call this function. Doc say This function can be called repeatedly to detect when new devices become available but this

[sane-devel] Doubt about sane_get_devices

2008-04-24 Thread m. allan noah
this depends entirely on the backend. i have tried to make sure that the backends i maintain will re-find scanners at every call, but other backends may not. allan On 4/24/08, tobias alarcon extobias at gmail.com wrote: Hi all Im just wanna know if this function retrives the list of devices

[sane-devel] Doubt about sane_get_devices

2008-04-24 Thread tobias alarcon
So in the fujitsu backend should work? On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 3:43 PM, m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com wrote: this depends entirely on the backend. i have tried to make sure that the backends i maintain will re-find scanners at every call, but other backends may not. allan On

[sane-devel] Calling a script after USB scanner is plugged

2008-04-24 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Johannes, Am Donnerstag, 24. April 2008 schrieb Johannes Meixner: Hello, On Apr 23 22:53 Rainer Dorsch wrote: Am Mittwoch, 23. April 2008 schrieb Julien BLACHE: Johannes Meixner jsmeix at suse.de wrote: Hi, umax1220u scripts are started in a sequence (i.e. not in parallel,

[sane-devel] incompatible iscan-2.11.0

2008-04-24 Thread Julien BLACHE
Johannes Meixner jsmeix at suse.de wrote: esfw41.bin: Perfection 2480 PHOTO / GT-F500, Perfection 2580 PHOTO / GT-F550 Supported by the snapscan backend, same for the 3490 and 3590 IIRC. JB. -- Julien BLACHE http://www.jblache.org jb at jblache.org

[sane-devel] Calling a script after USB scanner is plugged

2008-04-24 Thread Julien BLACHE
Johannes Meixner jsmeix at suse.de wrote: Hi, I wonder how scanimage -L causes any add or remove event at all. I cannot imagine that those add or remove events are the same add or remove events which happen when the device is plugged-in at the USB or plugged-off from the USB. Not sure about

[sane-devel] Question about Genesys_Frontend

2008-04-24 Thread Guillaume Gastebois
Hello, In genesys backend, we can find : typedef struct { u_int8_t reg[4]; u_int8_t sign[3]; u_int8_t offset[3]; u_int8_t gain[3]; u_int8_t reg2[3]; } Genesys_Frontend; but in WM8199 regs don't have the same name. For me registers addresses are :

[sane-devel] Calling a script after USB scanner is plugged

2008-04-24 Thread Julien BLACHE
Johannes Meixner jsmeix at suse.de wrote: Hi, Be careful with the labels you use. Always use a unique label name, or you're asking for troubles. (been there, done that, accidentally rendered a number of systems unbootable due to that ...) Many thanks for this enlightening info!

[sane-devel] Doubt about sane_get_devices

2008-04-24 Thread m. allan noah
it should, but i take it from your question that it does not? :) allan On 4/24/08, tobias alarcon extobias at gmail.com wrote: So in the fujitsu backend should work? On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 3:43 PM, m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com wrote: this depends entirely on the backend. i have

[sane-devel] Doubt about sane_get_devices

2008-04-24 Thread m. allan noah
ahh, but you dont just query the list again, you call sane_exit and sane_init first. just call sane_get_devices, and see if that helps. allan On 4/24/08, tobias alarcon extobias at gmail.com wrote: Nop, doesnt work. Maybe im doing something wrong. I got this logs. Log 1 ##Start the