[sane-devel] problems with genesys and MD6228

2008-05-20 Thread stef
Le Monday 19 May 2008 23:33:08 Werner Holtfreter, vous avez ?crit?: Am Montag, 19. Mai 2008 21:04:22 schrieb stef: ???could you try to run scanimage with debug logs enabled with the following commands in a shell: export SANE_DEBUG_GENESYS=255 export SANE_DEBUG_GENESYS_GL646=255

[sane-devel] Double-free following scan on ubuntu hardy 8.04 with epjitsu fi-60f

2008-05-20 Thread Jeff Kowalczyk
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:20:04 +0100, Chris Lale wrote: Jeff Kowalczyk wrote: On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:01:08 -0400, m. allan noah wrote: well, i've just committed a patch to fix this, but please test, as i never saw the error message in the first place... Does anyone have a good procedure for

[sane-devel] hp5470c grayscale mode not available

2008-05-21 Thread Guillaume
Hi, I've recently upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04 and I discovered that I can't scan in gray scale with my HP5470c. The scan mode menu is not available in xsane (0.995), xscanimage (1.0.14) or kooka (0.44). From what I recalled, it used to be possible with Ubuntu 7.10. It surely works fine under

[sane-devel] general question aboit cis scanner clocking scheme (genesys gl842)

2008-05-21 Thread guillaume.gasteb...@free.fr
Hello, I'm trying to make canon lide 90 working under sane. But since weeks I don't make progress. I need some documentation/informations about cis clocking scheme. For example, what are CCD TG, VSMP, BSMP, CCD RS, CCD CP, clock 1 3 and 4... mentionned in Genesys GL842 datasheet ? Thank you

[sane-devel] hp5470c grayscale mode not available

2008-05-21 Thread m. allan noah
there have been no recent changes to the hp5400 backend. can you please verify that the grayscale option did appear in prior versions of sane? allan 2008/5/21 Guillaume guillcdv at gmail.com: Hi, I've recently upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04 and I discovered that I can't scan in gray scale with my

[sane-devel] Is it posssible to install a Scanner Genius vivid 1220E on Ubuntu?

2008-05-21 Thread yefer barandica
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[sane-devel] SANE 1.1.0 Release discussion

2008-05-21 Thread m. allan noah
ok guys- take 3: Six general points for sane 1.1.x: - no changes to function calls - no changes to structures - 1.0 backends forward compatible with 1.1 - improve backend consistency - support more advanced scanners - improve cooperation with modern system services Specific proposals: 1.

[sane-devel] Is it posssible to install a Scanner Genius vivid 1220E on Ubuntu?

2008-05-22 Thread Nicolas
Maybe worth a try with Genius gt68xx backend ? (seems to work good for vivid 1200X and XE). Add your scanner USB IDs to the /etc/sane.d/gt68xx.conf file (at the bottom) and recheck whether it gets detected with a scanimage -L and scanimage -T You can get your scanner USB IDs by issuing a:

[sane-devel] Scanner Problem From Ubuntu: niash; libusb unacessible due to it being busy

2008-05-21 Thread Bobby Yu
To be exact, the message was: Failed to open device 'niash:libusb:002:006': Device Busy'. Now my scanner is an Agfa Scanwise/Snapscan and I think the model is 1212u. Any insight is appreciated. -- -- - Bobby Yu's Contact Information Yahoo Address (Personal): bobbyyu1 at yahoo.ca MSN Address

[sane-devel] SANE 1.1.0 Release discussion

2008-05-22 Thread Étienne Bersac
Hi, From my point of view, everything is fine. Regards, ?tienne.

[sane-devel] Is it posssible to install a Scanner Genius vivid 1220E on Ubuntu?

2008-05-22 Thread yefer barandica
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[sane-devel] Problem with avision and HP ScanJet 8250 on Mac OS X 10.5.2

2008-05-23 Thread David Moser
The HP ScanJet 8250 scanner works great with VueScan, but doesn't work with the SANE backend. I am on OS X 10.5.2. I saw that the avision backend should be used, but so far, it doesn't seem to get past this issue: SANE_DEBUG_AVISION=1 scanimage test.pnm [sanei_debug] Setting debug level

[sane-devel] Is it posssible to install a Scanner Genius vivid 1220E on Ubuntu?

2008-05-23 Thread Gerard Klaver
On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 13:59 -0700, yefer barandica wrote: Thanks Nicolas for your help. I did what you told me but nothing happens. It seems my scanner is based on a SQ113 chip technology and not on a GT68 chip technology. I was reading a page where says that if I want to use the SANE gt68xx

[sane-devel] Question on scanimage -f

2008-05-23 Thread Dieter Jurzitza
Dear listmembers, having two scanners attached to my system I get calling scanimage -L SCANNER1 SCANNER2 choosing the appropriate command sequence with scanimage -f I can get the very same result, except it looks like SCANNER1SCANNER2 is there any hidden way to force scanimage -f commandset to

[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] [PATCH] epkowa: 16-bit on Epson 4490

2008-05-24 Thread Carl Troein
Hi all, A while back I got an Epson Perfection 4490 Photo and found out that the 16-bit scanning didn't work, so I made a patch for the epkowa driver to fix the problem. I posted it on the avasys message board, but evidently didn't do enough research to find out that I could've posted it here. Now

[sane-devel] CanoScan LiDE90 support

2008-05-24 Thread silvius chis
I want to ask if anyone can tell me if there is any hope to have support in sane for this model of scanner. Thanks in advance.

[sane-devel] Question on scanimage -f

2008-05-25 Thread abel deuring
On 23.05.2008 20:45, Dieter Jurzitza wrote: Dear listmembers, having two scanners attached to my system I get calling scanimage -L SCANNER1 SCANNER2 choosing the appropriate command sequence with scanimage -f I can get the very same result, except it looks like SCANNER1SCANNER2 is

[sane-devel] Utlizing Scan Button on a Fujitsu 5120C

2008-05-25 Thread Ron Joffe
I am looking to see if functionality has been added to utilize the scan button on an ADF scanner? I have read a few posts back in '04 in the archives, and am wondering if any progress has been made. Thanks, Ron

[sane-devel] Question on scanimage -f

2008-05-25 Thread Dieter Jurzitza
Dear Abel, dear Listmembers, thanks very much, this did the trick! I would never have thought about doing it this way, though ;-) Take care Dieter Jurzitza -- --- | \

[sane-devel] hp5470c grayscale mode not available

2008-05-25 Thread Guillaume
m. allan noah a ?crit : why did you pick sane 1.0.12, is that the version that was on your last os? I just picked the not too old one which would compile on my system to see if it would make any difference. After some web searching here is the ubuntu 7.10 version

[sane-devel] hp5470c grayscale mode not available

2008-05-25 Thread m. allan noah
it could be done in the backend, but it would be easier to use an external program to do it, something from the netpbm package will do it... allan On 5/25/08, Guillaume guillcdv at gmail.com wrote: m. allan noah a ?crit : why did you pick sane 1.0.12, is that the version that was on your

[sane-devel] Question on scanimage -f

2008-05-25 Thread m. allan noah
it would seem that a better long-term choice would be to correct scanimage to output a \n after each scanner? allan On 5/25/08, Dieter Jurzitza dieter.jurzitza at t-online.de wrote: Dear Abel, dear Listmembers, thanks very much, this did the trick! I would never have thought about doing it

[sane-devel] Utlizing Scan Button on a Fujitsu 5120C

2008-05-25 Thread m. allan noah
On 5/24/08, Ron Joffe ron.joffe at gmail.com wrote: I am looking to see if functionality has been added to utilize the scan button on an ADF scanner? I have read a few posts back in '04 in the archives, and am wondering if any progress has been made. the fujitsu backend has supported all

[sane-devel] CanoScan LiDE90 support

2008-05-25 Thread m. allan noah
there has been much work on this by Guillaume Gastebois and Pierre. it sounds like the backend is not working well enough for general use yet, but things are looking up? allan On 5/24/08, silvius chis silvanus2005 at gmail.com wrote: I want to ask if anyone can tell me if there is any hope to

[sane-devel] SANE 1.1.0 Release discussion

2008-05-25 Thread JKD
El Wednesday 21 May 2008 20:50:46 m. allan noah escribi?: 5. Several new well-known options for buttons and sensors. Backends should use the closest one to the meaning of the label on the scanner or the button's use in the manufacturer's software. Backends may also use a different name if no

[sane-devel] SANE 1.1.0 Release discussion

2008-05-25 Thread m. allan noah
or perhaps scan2 or altscan? allan On 5/25/08, JKD jkdsoft at gmail.com wrote: El Wednesday 21 May 2008 20:50:46 m. allan noah escribi?: 5. Several new well-known options for buttons and sensors. Backends should use the closest one to the meaning of the label on the scanner or the

[sane-devel] SANE 1.1.0 Release discussion

2008-05-26 Thread Étienne Bersac
Hi, or perhaps scan2 or altscan? No ! you need to keep to semantic ! altscan or scan is not selfexplanatory. Please prefer film or scan-film. We should also state whether we should use _ or - in option name. I guess that the standard is lowercase + hyphen + digit. ?tienne.

[sane-devel] SANE 1.1.0 Release discussion

2008-05-26 Thread René Rebe
Hi, some scanners even have simplex / duplex buttons or even fine grained to up/down arrows to setup resolution, color mode etc. (i.g. the popular HP 7400). In the Avision backend I know use a string option to spit out a message the program can parse. Going with the current trend, maybe a xml

[sane-devel] Problem with avision and HP ScanJet 8250 on Mac OS X 10.5.2

2008-05-26 Thread René Rebe
Dear David, I do not have a device for testing. The SANE CVS might or might not work better. If it does not work better on your device you could donate a device for testing and it should be fixable quickly. Alternative, if you know C, you could try and debug the problem. Yours, -- Ren?

[sane-devel] SANE 1.1.0 Release discussion

2008-05-26 Thread René Rebe
Hi Allan, can you explain the paper width option to me? Why can we not simply use br x/y? Actually I got a Fujitsu scanner here and find the duplicate paper width option annoying at best. Aside the already mentioned button to use some more extend-able XML encoding instead of a hardcoded set, I

[sane-devel] SANE 1.1.0 Release discussion

2008-05-26 Thread m. allan noah
On 5/26/08, ?tienne Bersac bersace03 at gmail.com wrote: Hi, or perhaps scan2 or altscan? No ! you need to keep to semantic ! altscan or scan is not selfexplanatory. Please prefer film or scan-film. i doubt any frontend is going to code distinct support for such a unique button, but we

[sane-devel] SANE 1.1.0 Release discussion

2008-05-26 Thread m. allan noah
On 5/26/08, Ren? Rebe rene at exactcode.de wrote: Hi, some scanners even have simplex / duplex buttons or even fine grained to up/down arrows to setup resolution, color mode etc. (i.g. the popular HP 7400). right- but what is the frontend going to do with that, read the user's setting,

[sane-devel] SANE 1.1.0 Release discussion

2008-05-26 Thread m. allan noah
sorry rene- this should have gone to list... On 5/26/08, m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com wrote: On 5/26/08, Ren? Rebe rene at exactcode.de wrote: Hi Allan, can you explain the paper width option to me? Why can we not simply use br x/y? Actually I got a Fujitsu scanner

[sane-devel] SANE 1.1.0 Release discussion

2008-05-26 Thread Étienne Bersac
Hi, but what is the frontend going to do with that, read the user's setting, then turn the data back around and set the resolution and duplex options? it seems that would be better done in the backend itself.? But the frontend should be aware that the device has changed some value, at least

[sane-devel] SANE 1.1.0 Release discussion

2008-05-26 Thread m. allan noah
On 5/26/08, ?tienne Bersac bersace03 at gmail.com wrote: Hi, but what is the frontend going to do with that, read the user's setting, then turn the data back around and set the resolution and duplex options? it seems that would be better done in the backend itself.? But the

[sane-devel] SANE 1.1.0 Release discussion

2008-05-26 Thread René Rebe
Hi, ps: this time to the list as well :-) m. allan noah wrote: On 5/26/08, Ren? Rebe rene at exactcode.de wrote: Hi Allan, can you explain the paper width option to me? Why can we not simply use br x/y? Actually I got a Fujitsu scanner here and find the duplicate paper width option

[sane-devel] SANE 1.1.0 Release discussion

2008-05-26 Thread m. allan noah
On 5/26/08, Ren? Rebe rene at exactcode.de wrote: Hi, ps: this time to the list as well :-) m. allan noah wrote: On 5/26/08, Ren? Rebe rene at exactcode.de wrote: Hi Allan, can you explain the paper width option to me? Why can we not simply use br x/y? Actually I

[sane-devel] SANE 1.1 impacts on sane-frontends

2008-05-26 Thread François Revol
Hello, I have started to change sane-frontends to handle new status code from SANE 1.1 . But before any commit, I suppose one should tag current sources. new status code ? Hmm where should I snoop to know what to change ? I might have to update Sanity later... Or maybe

[sane-devel] SANE 1.1 impacts on sane-frontends

2008-05-26 Thread François Revol
Hello, I have started to change sane-frontends to handle new status code from SANE 1.1 . But before any commit, I suppose one should tag current sources. new status code ? Hmm where should I snoop to know what to change ? I might have to update Sanity later...

[sane-devel] Re : CanoScan LiDE90 support

2008-05-26 Thread Guillaume Gastebois
Hello, I work on, but don't know when It'll be good working. I want to ask if anyone can tell me if there is any hope to have support in sane for this model of scanner. Thanks in advance.

[sane-devel] Problem with libusb and 64 bits 2.6.25 kernel

2008-05-26 Thread Nicolas
Sam V. posted recently a bug report with a 64 bits kernel, running the pixma backend and a MF-4270 Canon MFP. Details here: https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/?group_id=30186atid=410366func=detailaid=310861 He has the pixma backend running fine with a 32 bits kernel (same version as 64 bits) in

[sane-devel] Problem with libusb and 64 bits 2.6.25 kernel

2008-05-26 Thread m. allan noah
two random thoughts- 1. can he try 32 bit kernel on same exact machine, just to rule out hardware problems? 2. is there a pattern to the timeouts, like always same number of errors before a good packet? allan On 5/26/08, Nicolas nicolas.martin at freesurf.fr wrote: Sam V. posted recently a

[sane-devel] Question on scanimage -f

2008-05-27 Thread Johannes Meixner
Hello, On May 25 07:48 m. allan noah wrote (shortened): it would seem that a better long-term choice would be to correct scanimage to output a \n after each scanner? And how can I then get the output in one single line? (without using tr -d '\n' ;-) It would break backward compatibility.

[sane-devel] Support for CanoScan 8400F (GL841)

2008-05-28 Thread Greg Wyatt
According to the SANE website, the Canon CanoScan 8400F is currently unsupported but GL841 based, to be added to genesys backend. I would GREATLY appreciate this scanner being supported in Linux (specifically Ubuntu Hardy). Does anyone know when this might happen? Although it appears that all

[sane-devel] Problem with libusb and 64 bits 2.6.25 kernel

2008-05-27 Thread m. allan noah
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Nicolas nicolas.martin at freesurf.fr wrote: Le lundi 26 mai 2008 ? 19:12 -0400, m. allan noah a ?crit : two random thoughts- 1. can he try 32 bit kernel on same exact machine, just to rule out hardware problems? Good point, and to try other USB ports on the

[sane-devel] Problem with libusb and 64 bits 2.6.25 kernel

2008-05-27 Thread Nicolas
Le mardi 27 mai 2008 ? 15:42 -0400, m. allan noah a ?crit : On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Nicolas nicolas.martin at freesurf.fr wrote: Le lundi 26 mai 2008 ? 19:12 -0400, m. allan noah a ?crit : two random thoughts- 1. can he try 32 bit kernel on same exact machine, just to rule out

[sane-devel] Problem with libusb and 64 bits 2.6.25 kernel

2008-05-27 Thread m. allan noah
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Nicolas nicolas.martin at freesurf.fr wrote: Le mardi 27 mai 2008 ? 15:42 -0400, m. allan noah a ?crit : On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Nicolas nicolas.martin at freesurf.fr wrote: Le lundi 26 mai 2008 ? 19:12 -0400, m. allan noah a ?crit : two random

[sane-devel] Problem with libusb and 64 bits 2.6.25 kernel

2008-05-27 Thread Nicolas
Le mardi 27 mai 2008 ? 16:24 -0400, m. allan noah a ?crit : On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Nicolas nicolas.martin at freesurf.fr wrote: Le mardi 27 mai 2008 ? 15:42 -0400, m. allan noah a ?crit : On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Nicolas nicolas.martin at freesurf.fr wrote: Le

[sane-devel] Question on scanimage -f

2008-05-27 Thread m. allan noah
On 5/27/08, Dieter Jurzitza dieter.jurzitza at t-online.de wrote: Dear listmembers, I did not see the previous posting from M. Allan Noah, but in general I totally agree with Johannes Meixner: if one introduces such an option (what I would consider positive) the backward compatibility

[sane-devel] Question on scanimage -f

2008-05-28 Thread Johannes Meixner
Hello On 5/27/08, Dieter Jurzitza dieter.jurzitza at t-online.de wrote: ... ... parsing individual scanners from the scanimage -f output. FYI: For the current scanimage -f output use something like scanimage -f '%d;' | tr ';' '\n' Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products

[sane-devel] fujitsu fi-5220C flatbed prescan doesn't work with xsane

2008-05-28 Thread Dirk Meier
Hello, my new fi-5220C is connected with its scsi interface to my OpenSuse 10.3 system. I am using sane-backends 1.0.19 and xsane 0.995 for scanning. By scanning with the adf I can get a prescan. After switching to flatbed source the prescan standard picture of xsane becomes smaller. Clicking

[sane-devel] fujitsu fi-5220C flatbed prescan doesn't work with xsane

2008-05-28 Thread m. allan noah
sorry dirk- should have sent this to the list as well... On 5/28/08, m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com wrote: On 5/28/08, Dirk Meier dirk.meier at gmx.de wrote: Hello, my new fi-5220C is connected with its scsi interface to my OpenSuse 10.3 system. I am using sane-backends 1.0.19

[sane-devel] Scanning multipage files

2008-05-28 Thread David Lochrin
I'm attempting to scan a two-page document with PDF output. The 'sane' working directory is created and three files are created therein - the two PNG image files and 'xsane-multipage-list'. However clicking on the save multipage file button pops up the message window File

[sane-devel] segmentation fault in sort_and_average() at avision.c:4409

2008-05-28 Thread Kenneth Redler
(15:02:26) kennethr: I'm getting segmentation fault core dump when attempting to use an HPscanjet5300C with scanimage (sane-backends) 1.0.19; backend version 1.0.19 on Ubuntu 8.04(Hardy Heron). What can I do to get this issue resolved? (15:02:31) kennethr: sort_and_average

[sane-devel] segmentation fault in sort_and_average() at avision.c:4409

2008-05-28 Thread m. allan noah
first thing i would try is building sane from a cvs checkout, and see if the recent avision updates fix the problem. allan On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Kenneth Redler kennyredler at gmail.com wrote: (15:02:26) kennethr: I'm getting segmentation fault core dump when attempting to use an

[sane-devel] segmentation fault in sort_and_average() at avision.c:4409

2008-05-29 Thread René Rebe
Yes, they do fix this. Sorry, somehow I wiped some lines of code with some previous code merge, introducing this regression ... CVS is fine. Yours, m. allan noah wrote: first thing i would try is building sane from a cvs checkout, and see if the recent avision updates fix the problem.

[sane-devel] HP Photosmart C4280 on Mac OS X 10.5.2

2008-05-30 Thread Coe, Kenneth
Hello all, Please be patient with a novice here: I'm trying to use twain-sane in order to use the SANE interface with the scanner on a HP Photosmart C4280. This is running on Mac OS X 10.5.2. Following the FAQ at http://www.ellert.se/twain-sane/faq.html , I've managed to find the scanner

[sane-devel] Support for CanoScan 8400F (GL841)

2008-05-31 Thread David Martin - Airgead Studio
Greg Wyatt wrote: According to the SANE website, the Canon CanoScan 8400F is currently unsupported but GL841 based, to be added to genesys backend. I would GREATLY appreciate this scanner being supported in Linux (specifically Ubuntu Hardy). Does anyone know when this might happen?

[sane-devel] do you now this driver for hp2400 scanjet ?

2008-05-30 Thread Olivier DROUET
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[sane-devel] incompatible iscan-2.11.0

2008-04-30 Thread m. allan noah
On 4/30/08, Johannes Meixner jsmeix at suse.de wrote: Hello, On Apr 30 11:35 Olaf Meeuwissen wrote (shortened): Johannes Meixner jsmeix at suse.de writes: On Apr 24 16:35 Olaf Meeuwissen wrote (shortened): Johannes Meixner jsmeix at suse.de writes: Because of legal issues

[sane-devel] HP Photosmart C4280 on Mac OS X 10.5.2

2008-06-02 Thread m. allan noah
nothing i can find about the hp4200 backend indicates that it supports your machine. i think you need to see if the hpaio backend supports this scanner, and if so, if that backend is available for your OS. it comes not from sane, but from: hplip.sourceforge.net, IIRC. allan On 5/30/08, Coe,

[sane-devel] HP Photosmart C4280 on Mac OS X 10.5.2

2008-06-02 Thread Coe, Kenneth
Thanks for the input. It looks like it is not supported on Mac OS X 10.5 at the moment, from all that I can gather. -Original Message- From: m. allan noah [mailto:kitno...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 7:08 AM To: Coe, Kenneth Cc: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org

[sane-devel] fujitsu scanner owners needed

2008-06-02 Thread m. allan noah
In the past few weeks, I have made several updates to the fujitsu sane backend. I don't really have a good list of testers, so I am putting out a call for all fujitsu backend users to please try the current version from SANE CVS. We are working toward a SANE 1.1.0 release this summer, and I really

[sane-devel] Mac SF600

2008-06-02 Thread Diego Oliveira
Hello all, I'm trying to use a ColorPage SF600 in a mac Leopard box by the sane distribution found in http://www.ellert.se/twain-sane/. All goes right until I try to scan a image. The software just freezes. Running with the SANE_DEBUG_GT68XX=255 I realized that the drives is looping always

[sane-devel] do you now this driver for hp2400 scanjet ?

2008-06-02 Thread Nicolas
Did you give a try to those backends ? Maybe to be added into sane-backends/doc/descriptions-external/hp2400.desc and hp8300.desc ? Nicolas Le vendredi 30 mai 2008 ? 19:45 +0200, Olivier DROUET a ?crit : http://www.elcot.in/linuxdrivers_download.php -- olivier.drouet at tele2.fr

[sane-devel] problems with genesys and MD6228

2008-06-03 Thread stef
Hello, I have commit a fix for the offset of scan area in latest SANE's CVS. I not sure this would correct the problem you had a low black and white resolution scans. If there is still some problem, could you send me the debug log produced by running theses commands in a

[sane-devel] problems with genesys and MD6228

2008-06-03 Thread Werner Holtfreter
Hallo stef, am Dienstag, 2008-06-03 06:46 schrieben Sie: I have commit a fix for the offset of scan area in latest SANE's CVS. Thank you very much! I not sure this would correct the problem you had a low black and white resolution scans. If there is still some problem, could you send me

[sane-devel] PENTAX DSmobile 600 scanner

2008-06-03 Thread Kjell André Lende
Hi, I was wondering if anyone has had any luck getting the PENTAX DSmobile 600 scanner to work in SANE/on Linux? I would very much like to purchase it, but there is no point in that if it doesn't work on my system... -- Regards, Kjell Andr? Lende

[sane-devel] problems with genesys and MD6228

2008-06-03 Thread stef
Le Tuesday 03 June 2008 14:18:05 Werner Holtfreter, vous avez ?crit?: Hallo stef, am Dienstag, 2008-06-03 06:46 schrieben Sie: I have commit a fix for the offset of scan area in latest SANE's CVS. Thank you very much! I not sure this would correct the problem you had a low black and

[sane-devel] PENTAX DSmobile 600 scanner

2008-06-04 Thread m. allan noah
found this in the mailing list archives: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2007-July/019594.html allan On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Kjell Andr? Lende post at mypanorama.org wrote: Hi, I was wondering if anyone has had any luck getting the PENTAX DSmobile 600 scanner

[sane-devel] PENTAX DSmobile 600 scanner

2008-06-04 Thread Gerard Klaver
On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 16:18 +0200, Kjell Andr? Lende wrote: On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 21:24:31 +0200 Thierry de Coulon tcoulon at decoulon.ch wrote: On Tuesday 03 June 2008, Kjell Andr? Lende wrote: Hi, I was wondering if anyone has had any luck getting the PENTAX DSmobile 600 scanner

[sane-devel] problems with genesys and MD6228

2008-06-04 Thread Werner Holtfreter
Am Dienstag, 3. Juni 2008 20:12:29 schrieb stef: I not sure this would correct the problem you had a low black and white resolution scans. If there is still some problem, could you send me the debug log produced by running theses commands in a shell: export

[sane-devel] problems with genesys and MD6228

2008-06-04 Thread stef
Le Wednesday 04 June 2008 20:17:07 Werner Holtfreter, vous avez ?crit?: Am Dienstag, 3. Juni 2008 20:12:29 schrieb stef: I not sure this would correct the problem you had a low black and white resolution scans. If there is still some problem, could you send me the debug log produced

[sane-devel] Branch for sane-frontends

2008-06-04 Thread stef
Hello, to maintain the curent 1.0.x version of sane-backends I propose to tag current sources with: DEVEL_1_0_TRUNK Then make a branch: DEVEL_1_0_BRANCH SANE 1.1 developments will use MAIN. Is it OK ? I have modified sane-frontends to compile

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

2008-06-05 Thread Wang Mengqiang
Hello, everyone, My name is Wang mengqiang, I am expecting to get your help on development very much. I am investigating to develop a commerce driver on linux. I have studied the sane project for some time. And, we are planning to develop the driver on sane. But, I have some doubts on

[sane-devel] Visioneer 6200USB backend

2008-06-04 Thread Kyle Dickerson
I have a Visioneer 6200USB and am interested in trying to write a backend for it, or at least providing as much information about the model as possible. I've taken the scanner apart to look at chip information, however I don't know which of the chips are important to know about. The board that

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

2008-06-05 Thread Wang Mengqiang
Thank you for your reply and truth.

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

2008-06-05 Thread Johannes Meixner
Hello, On Jun 4 21:02 m. allan noah wrote (shortened): SANE is GPL, with an added exception to allow proprietary front-end programs to link against it. What you are suggesting is the opposite- you wish to have a free 'middleware' layer, which loads closed backends to do that actual work? I

[sane-devel] Visioneer 6200USB backend

2008-06-05 Thread Anderson Lizardo
2008/6/5 Kyle Dickerson kyle.dickerson at gmail.com: I have a Visioneer 6200USB and am interested in trying to write a backend for it, or at least providing as much information about the model as possible. I don't have this scanner, but you may want to try the source code from this link:

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

2008-06-05 Thread Daniel Glöckner
Hello, On 5 Jun 08 08:28, Wang Mengqiang wrote: 1) In the development, we plan to use several special modules which do not contain any open source code from sane or other party, because they contain some tecnology that we do not want to open. May I ask what functionality is contained in

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

2008-06-05 Thread Johannes Meixner
Hello, On Jun 5 15:55 Daniel Gl?ckner wrote (shortened): It may sound naive, but usually a scanner driver just needs to write some registers and accept the incoming image data. I don't see what needs to be hidden in that process. ... Maybe it is possible to make your driver compile with a

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

2008-06-05 Thread m. allan noah
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 3:49 AM, Johannes Meixner jsmeix at suse.de wrote: Hello, On Jun 4 21:02 m. allan noah wrote (shortened): SANE is GPL, with an added exception to allow proprietary front-end programs to link against it. What you are suggesting is the opposite- you wish to have a free

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

2008-06-05 Thread Alessandro Zummo
On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 13:02:08 +0800 Wang Mengqiang WangMengqiang at canon-ib.com.cn wrote: Thank you for your reply and truth. From your reply, it seems there is no way to use other modules, for example, if we buy some modules from other company without source code, how to deal with it?

[sane-devel] Visioneer 6200USB backend

2008-06-05 Thread Kyle Dickerson
Looking through the information on the viceo.orconhosting.net site, it shows my scanner as being unsupported due to using the E5 chipset. I did find some more information by digging through the files included with the Windows Driver. One of the files (Hardware.ini) looks like it contains

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

2008-06-06 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Johannes Meixner jsmeix at suse.de writes: I have another question: Assume because of whatever reason a scanner manufacturer cannot make a free backend (e.g. because of third-party license stuff, or just because the upper management at the manufacturer is full of fear that another

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

2008-06-06 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com writes: On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 3:49 AM, Johannes Meixner jsmeix at suse.de wrote: Hello, On Jun 4 21:02 m. allan noah wrote (shortened): SANE is GPL, with an added exception to allow proprietary front-end programs to link against it. What you are

[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] Branch for sane-frontends

2008-06-06 Thread stef
Le Thursday 05 June 2008 14:00:22 m. allan noah, vous avez ?crit?: On 6/4/08, stef stef.dev at free.fr wrote: Hello, to maintain the curent 1.0.x version of sane-backends I propose to tag current sources with: DEVEL_1_0_TRUNK i just made this tag. Then make

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

2008-06-06 Thread Johannes Meixner
Hello, On Jun 5 11:30 m. allan noah wrote (shortened): Sane is not here to provide sanei for proprietary backends to steal. Many thanks! Now it is clear for me! Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF:

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

2008-06-06 Thread Wang Mengqiang
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 possible reasons on the block of communication.

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

2008-06-06 Thread Johannes Meixner
Hello, On 5 Jun Wang Mengqiang wrote (shortened): we plan to use several special modules which do not contain any open source code from sane or other party, because they contain some tecnology that we do not want to open. So, that is, our backend is composed of two parts, one part is open

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

2008-06-06 Thread Alessandro Zummo
On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:24:25 +0900 Olaf Meeuwissen olaf.meeuwissen at avasys.jp wrote: If GPL'd code uses a non-compatible library via dlopen that's just as much a violation as linking to it directly. The code runs in the same process space. That makes the combined work a derivative, so,

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

2008-06-06 Thread m. allan noah
On 6/6/08, Alessandro Zummo azummo-lists at towertech.it wrote: On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:24:25 +0900 Olaf Meeuwissen olaf.meeuwissen at avasys.jp wrote: If GPL'd code uses a non-compatible library via dlopen that's just as much a violation as linking to it directly. The code runs in the

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

2008-06-06 Thread Alessandro Zummo
On Fri, 6 Jun 2008 09:54:13 -0400 m. allan noah kitno455 at gm gpl faq is pretty clear on this one: If the modules are included in the same executable file, they are definitely combined in one program. If modules are designed to run linked together in a shared address space, that almost

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

2008-06-06 Thread m. allan noah
On 6/6/08, Alessandro Zummo azummo-lists at towertech.it wrote: On Fri, 6 Jun 2008 09:54:13 -0400 m. allan noah kitno455 at gm gpl faq is pretty clear on this one: If the modules are included in the same executable file, they are definitely combined in one program. If modules are

[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

2008-06-06 Thread Alessandro Zummo
On Fri, 6 Jun 2008 10:26:04 -0400 m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com wrote: no, the GPL is all about derivative works and combining code, it makes no difference the direction: You are probably right, the closest entry in the faq that describes this situation seems to be

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

2008-06-06 Thread Alessandro Zummo
On Fri, 6 Jun 2008 16:36:39 +0200 Alessandro Zummo azummo-lists at towertech.it wrote: On Fri, 6 Jun 2008 10:26:04 -0400 m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com wrote: no, the GPL is all about derivative works and combining code, it makes no difference the direction: You are probably

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