[sane-devel] command for stupid people?

2008-02-26 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, I assume you are using the snapscan backend. In this case: My Epson 3490 works just fine if the firm ware is loaded from a Windows box first. I also have located the binary that needs to be loaded. Is there a bash command I can run to manually load the binary file into the

[sane-devel] Snapscan Backend - Mac OSX Tiger don't work

2008-05-18 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, you need the firmware file for your scanner (Snapscan 1212U_2.bin from your scanner driver CD). Save it under a name without spaces and specify the filename (with full path) in the file /usr/local/etc/ sane.d/snapscan.conf After that, check if scanimage -L on the command line finds the

[sane-devel] Problem: X-Server crashes when using XSane

2008-06-24 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, please also provide the log produced by SANE_DEBUG_SNAPSCAN=255 xsane 2 debug.log then use xsane until the error occurs. The logs tend to get quite big, so you should compress it. Regards, Oliver On 21.06.2008, at 17:46, Christoph M. Schr?der wrote: Hi, thanks for the information.

[sane-devel] Problem: X-Server crashes when using XSane

2008-06-24 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, the interesting part is the contents of the file 'debug.log', which should be created in the directory from which you started xsane. Regards, Oliver On 24.06.2008, at 17:50, Christoph M. Schr?der wrote: Hi, thanks Oliver. This is what i'm getting showed in the terminal: $

[sane-devel] Problem: X-Server crashes when using XSane

2008-06-24 Thread Oliver Schwartz
at X.org would find the information useful. Kind regards, Oliver Am 24.06.2008 um 18:07 schrieb Christoph M. Schr?der: Sorry, now i got it. Oliver Schwartz schrieb: Hi, the interesting part is the contents of the file 'debug.log', which should be created in the directory from which you

[sane-devel] How to accurately scan A4(210mmx297mm) size paper?

2008-06-27 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hello all, IIRC the person who wrote XSane is indeed german (Oliver Schwartz) well, I'm german, but I didn't write XSane :-( That honour belongs to Oliver Rauch (who is also german AFAIK). Regards, Oliver

[sane-devel] Lost with udev and sane

2009-03-15 Thread Oliver Schwartz
John, You don't need to create any '/dev/usb/scanner' device, nor should you specify the scanner device in snapscan.conf. Your scanner will be detected automatically provided that the USB ID is listed in snapscan.conf, which should be the case for the snapscan 1212 on any standard sane

[sane-devel] Acer ScanPrisa640U Scanner isn't in your list and there are alot of us trying to use it!

2009-04-20 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, What list exactly are you referring to? On http://www.sane-project.org you'll find it listed under Benq 640U (Acer Peripherals renamed itself to Benq several years ago, as is also mentioned in the same list). The scanner has been supported for more than seven years. So, what exactly

[sane-devel] Benq S2W 4300U Scanner...

2010-02-03 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, On 02.02.2010, at 10:09, Zed wrote: I am using LinuxMint v8.0 and having difficulty in getting my Benq S2W 4300U Scanner to work on my system. After installing u176v046.bin in .usr/share/sane/snapscan, and editing /etc/sane.d/snapscan.con to read: #--

[sane-devel] Benq S2W 4300U Scanner...

2010-02-04 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, Please remove the line containing the USB device from your config file (/dev/usb/scanner0) - it's no longer useable for systems using libusb and the specified device does not exist on your system. After removing the line the scanner should be found automatically. Thsnk you for

[sane-devel] Benq S2W 4300U Scanner...

2010-02-08 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Zed, the log from scanimage -L looks fine (there is no error in the log) and the console output shows that the scanner is correctly detected. The Gtk-warnings are xsane related and you can probably ignore them. If you still cannot scan in xsane I need the backend log while running xsane,

[sane-devel] Has anyone managed to get Snapscan backend working with FreeBSD 8.0 (which uses libusb)?

2010-01-24 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, I have an old Agfa Snapscan 1212U scanner which have served me well for years, using SANE under FreeBSD. To make a long story short; FreeBSD 8.0-release came with a new usb stack, and is using libusb. And my scanner no longer works. Has anyone managed to get the snapscan backend

[sane-devel] Has anyone managed to get Snapscan backend working with FreeBSD 8.0 (which uses libusb)?

2010-01-26 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi all, On 25.01.2010, at 12:26, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: In the meantime, another FreeBSD user found a way to fix it, it is just a one-line patch: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-usb/2010-January/ 008172.html With Andrew's patch, my scanner now works: root at kg-v2#

[sane-devel] Has anyone managed to get Snapscan backend working with FreeBSD 8.0 (which uses libusb)?

2010-01-28 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi all, On 26.01.2010, at 15:46, m. allan noah wrote: Seems like an individual backend should not need to parse the device string. Isn't there some other way to come up with a unique semaphore, like process id? the process id could be used, but it may fail theoretically. One example is a

[sane-devel] Has anyone managed to get Snapscan backend working with FreeBSD 8.0 (which uses libusb)?

2010-01-28 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi all, On 28.01.2010 at 14:39 m. allan noah wrote: I would do both- process ID combined with a hash of the device name, I believe that would defeat the purpose. The whole point of the mutex is to protect the USB device from simultaneous access from two processes, e.g. the reader process and

[sane-devel] Has anyone managed to get Snapscan backend working with FreeBSD 8.0 (which uses libusb)?

2010-01-29 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi Allan, Anyway, I've commited a hash function now. The new code should also work on FreeBSD 8.0. If anyone can try it, I'd be much obliged. I did not see any commit message. did you git push? Err - yes, and it told me that it had pushed 4 or 5 objects. That was my first git

[sane-devel] can not initialize sane when linux system booting up

2003-05-19 Thread Oliver Schwartz
On Monday 19 May 2003 14:14, T.M.Thanh wrote: Hi folks, Sane can't initialize my Acer 640 BU Scanner when linux system booting up (I use RED HAT 9 and Mandrake 9.1). If I want to run my scanner on Linux, I have to turn it on and restart my system to Windows then reboot system to Linux and

[sane-devel] Normal or destructive behaviour when starting SANE?

2003-03-14 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, I think I'm using libusb, but I've not checked. It shouldn't matter which driver you use. Between my posting and your response it's possible I've solved the problem by commenting out all the details listed for other scanners in snapscan.config. If you're referring to the usb

[sane-devel] Erratic connection of frontends to scanner

2003-03-18 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, now we're getting somewhere... Right now scanimage returns: [snapscan] Cannot open firmware file /usr/local/etc/sane.d/Snape20.bin [snapscan] Edit the firmware file in snapscan.conf Obviously your firmware file entry in snapscan.conf points to /usr/local/etc/sane.d/Snape20.bin,

[sane-devel] Erratic connection of frontends to scanner

2003-03-19 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi I'm still not sure why this problem seemed to correct itself - it started straight after I loaded the new firmware file, but dissappeared suddenly, only to reappear two days later! The backend will perform the firmware upload only when needed. If the firmware was already downloaded (e.g.

[sane-devel] Current TODO list

2003-01-09 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, * desc files: - snapscan.desc: Add Mitsubishi DV650U usb scanner It turns out the DV650U has the same ID string (FlatbedScanner_23), vendor product ID (0x04a5, 0x20b0) and firmware file (u176v042.bin) as Acer/Benq 4300, listed at http://snapscan.sourceforge.net; The change

[sane-devel] epson perfection 660

2003-01-10 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, in the end we got it so far: The Epson 660 seems to be a rebadged AGFA scnapscan e26 I received an USB log of a windows scan and the protocol looks indeed=20 similar. I'll change the snapscan backend to make it recognize the=20 scanner, maybe we're lucky. Regards, Oliver

[sane-devel] Epson contacts

2003-01-12 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, my attempts to get the Epson Perfection 660 working with the SnapScan=20 backend haven't been all that successful so far. It seems that the=20 Perfection 660 has some subtle protocol differences in comparison to=20 Agfa scanners. In the past I got the impression that Epson gives

[sane-devel] stupid question about SCSI

2003-01-23 Thread Oliver Schwartz
On Thursday 23 January 2003 08:23, David Blomberg wrote: I am working on getting a Veugo 310S working for a friend out of the country--problem is does anyone know the SCSI card that this model scanner shipped with??=20 Assuming you mean Vuego and the Vuego 310S being the same as an Acer=20

[sane-devel] Problems with Benq S2W 5000E

2003-01-26 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, there are some known problems with the 5000E at the moment. First of=20 all, it doesn't like the calibration command. You can switch off the=20 option Quality calibration in your frontend, then you'll get a=20 little further. As far as I know the scanned image is distorted=20 nevertheless. I

[sane-devel] Epson Perfection 660 supported by SnapScan backend

2003-02-08 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, the Epson Perfection 660 is now supported by the SnapScan backend,=20 with a lot of testing effort from Bernard Cafarelli and others. The=20 reports I've received so far are encouraging but further tests are=20 welcome. You can get the latest version of the backend from=20

[sane-devel] Restarting scanner

2003-02-23 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, If I understand you cirrectly, there is no problem, and the scanner just takes some time to respond to commands after plug-in. Rebooting gives enough time so you don't notice it in this case. I reckon so. Sorry for kicking in somewhat late, but I have been to places where no

[sane-devel] Problem in setting up Xsane

2003-02-25 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, In addition it requires to make jumper setting on the SCSI card but my SCSI card coming with the scanner does not have jumpers. Is your SCSI card recognised in Linux (i.e. what's the output of cat /proc/scsi/scsi)? If so, does sane-find-scanner find your scanner? I don't know where

[sane-devel] Problem in setting up Xsane

2003-02-27 Thread Oliver Schwartz
I tried several combinations but it said 'aha152x' already exists there You need to run rmmod aha152x before running insmod again. The syntax (according to the source code of aha152x) is insmod aha152x io=0x140 irq=9 -Oliver

[sane-devel] INFO: sane-devel mailing list doesn't use Reply-To: header

2002-12-03 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, Repeat: Please reply to the list unless the message is really private. Why don't we set the Reply-to field so that replies are usually sent=20 to the mailing list? Just in the exceptional case where the answer is=20 really private the mailer has to change the To: field to the original=20

[sane-devel] (no subject)

2002-12-28 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, I forgot to say that firmware (u222v067.bin) path is pointed in snapscan.conf. You're using the wrong firmware file. For your model (0x04a5, 0x20b0) you should use u176v042.bin (the last three digits may differ depending on the version of your driver CD). -Oliver -- +++ GMX - Mail,

[sane-devel] Agfa snapscan support

2003-10-03 Thread Oliver Schwartz
=2DBEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Friday 03 October 2003 15:50, Yan Seiner wrote: Does anyone know if the original Agfa SnapScan (without a trailing designation) is supported? I see good support for SnapScan xxx, but the plain SnapScan is not mentioned as either

[sane-devel] forward from comp.periphs.scanners subject VueSan and Epson 1670

2003-10-07 Thread Oliver Schwartz
=2DBEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, It turns out that the 1670 is actually made by Acer/BenQ, just like the Perfection 660, and uses Acer commands. I'll see if I can add support for it in the snapscan backend - Henning=20 already filed me a feature request, so I won't forget

[sane-devel] Epson 1670 now supported by SnapScan backend

2003-11-08 Thread Oliver Schwartz
=2DBEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, With a lot of test effort from J=F6rg Skottke I've finally managed to=20 add support for the Epson 1670 in the SnapScan backend. You need the=20 latest SANE sources from CVS to try it ( see=20 http://www.sane-project.org/snapshots/ ).

[sane-devel] Epson Perfection 3490 PHOTO

2005-12-18 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, 1. Someone should change the sane compatibility list to show that it does NOT work as of sane-backends-1.0.16. It should be noted you need CVS or .17 once it's released. Where did you get the information that it does work with sane-backends-1.0.16? The device list for 1.0.16 doesn't

[sane-devel] Epson All-in-One stylus CX-1500

2005-12-18 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, I'm writting this to know if anyone are/have write/written a backend for this scanner. (Guttenprint have support for printing). If not, i have one of these i will ***TRY*** (I'm no a programmer any longer since some years ago, but i can remember C more or less clearly) to write a

[sane-devel] Benq 5150C / 5250C users: please test

2006-01-06 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi all, I've added some basic support for the Benq 5150C / 5250C scanner to the snapscan backend. Anyone owning such a scanner is encouraged to test it and inform me of any problems. You can get a snapshot of the latest SANE sources from http://www.sane-project.org/snapshots At present the

[sane-devel] sane SCSI 32bit emulation on 64bit

2006-01-08 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, He doesn't want to recompile for 64bit because the amount of money he makes from the Linux version doesn't justify it. Err... excuse me? I don't think the amount of money any of the SANE developers makes from SANE development justifies any effort on this behalf. I can understand your

[sane-devel] Intended change of config file handling

2006-01-09 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, I do not understand how automated firmware upload should work if there is more than one scanner connected which use the same backend but which need different firmware files. For the snapscan backend that's currently not possible, as there is only a single firmware file entry in

[sane-devel] Benq 5150C / 5250C users: please test

2006-01-09 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, Ok, I did some testing with my BenQ 5150C. My first try was in 300dpi color mode (because this was default). There are no color stripes anymore. However, the scanned area was not very wide. Although the full available range ((0,0)x(216.0,297.0)mm^2) was selected in xscanimage. The

[sane-devel] USB sanner only as root

2006-01-17 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, Thank you for the orientaion. On both computers I simply changed the id in the corresponding line of /etc/sane.d/hotplug/libsane.db from 0664 to 0660 and it worked fine. In case of BenQ 5000 it was also necessary to change the product code from 0x20fc to 0x20f8, acording to the

[sane-devel] Epson Perfection 1270 recognized, but not scanning

2006-01-19 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, I didn't include more verbose output from the commands here, to avoid making this mail very big, but I'll gladly include output with SANE_DEBUG_SNAPSCAN=2 level, as well as the output of any command, if needed. Please send me the log in private mail, preferably with

[sane-devel] Try it out: SANE, JNI and Java all in an applet

2006-01-29 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, On another subject, can we get the JNI code rolled into the SANE project distribution? The current japi code in sane-backend has not been maintained for about 9 years now. Our company will sponsor the code and code maintenance. Can we do this please? Java is part of the future of

[sane-devel] snapscan: scanner model

2006-02-18 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, I've got Epson Perfection 2580 Photo which is recognized by snapscan as 2480, because they both got the same id: 0x04b8/0x0121. I'm wondering if there is a way to know real model in such a situation. It can be helpful, because 2580 differs from 2480 (has a motor which transports 36mm

[sane-devel] snapscan: scanner model

2006-02-20 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, result is here: http://rmrmg.com/jaroslav/scanner-debug/SANE_DEBUG_SNAPSCAN_255-xsa ne.log According to the log the scanner is correctly identified. The margins of the transparency range should be set correctly. however, I've got strange issues. Sometimes after turning on the scanner

[sane-devel] epson 3490 problem (I/O error after scanimage)

2006-02-28 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, i report from the chat since i dunno if someone is listening :))) blicero hi everybody blicero got a problem with an epson 3490 blicero it should work blicero from web research blicero it works for anybody blicero but I get an ERROR :(( blicero nihil:/etc/udev/rules.d#

[sane-devel] Help with Epson Perfection 3490 Photo

2006-03-01 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, I just bought this scanner -- it seems that the problem is related to one I've just seen on the mailing list. Yes, probably. In your case it is definitely a scan module locked error - which means you should check the manual and remove the transportation lock. [snapscan] sense_handler:

[sane-devel] epson 3490 problem (I/O error after scanimage)

2006-03-05 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, also with mac and official cd found in the box the scanner would go nut and block itself. i am clueless [snapscan] sense_handler: sense key: 0x04, asc: 0x00, ascq: 0x00, i1: 0x00, i2: 0x04 [snapscan] sense_handler: Hardware error. (0x00, 0x04) [snapscan] test_unit_ready: snapscan_cmd

[sane-devel] Problems with Epson 3490 Photo

2006-03-05 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, [snapscan] usb_read Only 64 bytes read [snapscan] usb_read: reading: 0x06 0x00 0x02 0x02 0x49 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x45 0x50 ... [snapscan] Read 64 bytes [snapscan] inquiry: snapscan_cmd command failed: Error during device I/O [snapscan] sane_snapscan_open: error in inquiry command: This

[sane-devel] problem with Epson perfection 2480 photo scanner in FreeBSD

2006-03-19 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, I have a major issue with my Epson perfection 2480 photo scanner. It used to run in FreeBSD. I haven't used it in a few weeks during which upgrades occured and I noticed this week it stopped working. Portupgrade of sane had replaced the snapscan.conf file, I put back there my correct

[sane-devel] Benq 5300U not working with sane-backends-1.0.17

2006-03-19 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, Once that was done, scanimage -L finds an Acer FlatbedScanner22 flatbed scanner, which corresponds to an Benq 4300 scanner. (I was expecting FlatbedScanner24, which corresponds to my scanner.) The scanner should report FlatbedScanner24 after a successful firmware download. Before that

[sane-devel] problem with Epson perfection 2480 photo scanner in FreeBSD

2006-03-25 Thread Oliver Schwartz
On Thursday 23 March 2006 15:18, breach0r wrote: Hi, I tried, now sane-backends-1.0.16_2 is installed, i still get I/O error when trying to init the scanner. I/O error the first try and device unavailable the next tries. set SANE_DEBUG_SNAPSCAN=255 no longer produces any output (but i tried

[sane-devel] Benq 5300U not working with sane-backends-1.0.17

2006-03-25 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, The above appears to agree with the information on the sane-snapscan page, which gives the USB ID for the Acer/Benq 5300 as 0x04a5, 0x20fe and identifies the firmware to use is u254v042.bin. Yes, that should be correct. Of course, the firmware file I have might be corrupt. I downloaded

[sane-devel] CVS problem?

2006-03-26 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, it seems there's a problem with CVS. My password is not accepted, cvs keeps asking for it. Anonymous access doesn't work either: oliver@oliverspc:/tmp cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonym...@cvs.alioth.debian.org:/cvsroot/sane co sane Fatal error, aborting. anoncvs_sane: no such system user /Oliver

[sane-devel] problem with Epson perfection 2480 photo scanner in FreeBSD

2006-03-26 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, i reinstalled sane-backends-1.0.16_2 from freebsd ports i get: [sanei_debug] Setting debug level of snapscan to 255. [snapscan] sane_snapscan_init [snapscan] sane_snapscan_init: Snapscan backend version 1.4.50 This is _not_ sane-backends-1.0.16. The snapscan backend version in

[sane-devel] Benq 5300U not working with sane-backends-1.0.17

2006-03-28 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, Here goes, with first sane-find-scanner and then with scanimage -L, both as root: The interesting information is after the firmware download, which doesn't happen with scanimage -L. You can send the (compressed) log of a regular scanimage command to me in a private mail. You will

[sane-devel] Epson 3490 and Slide/Negative scaning.

2006-04-26 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, Epson 3490 is inexpensive scaner and is listed on the sane page as beeing supported (as good). The question is.. does sane supporr olso slide/negative scaning, and how good this scaner behaves under Linux... Does anybody on the list had any experience with this scaner and transparencie

[sane-devel] Snapscan 310 unimplemented features

2006-05-27 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, I'm using an Agfa SnapScan 310 scanner, its working just fine. However, its status shows 'good' rather than 'complete' in the support matrix at sane-project site. I would like to know which features are still unimplemented (or where to find this information if it's available) and if

[sane-devel] Epson Stylus CX3700 all in one

2006-05-30 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, I have searched the archives, but found nothing definitive; read all the docs and other stuff on sane-project.org/ and snapscan.sourceforge.net/ websites. I know that the scanner part of the CX3700 works [http://www.sane-project.org/cgi-bin/driver.pl?manu=epsonmodel=cx3 700bus=usbv=p=]

[sane-devel] Fwd: BENQ 4300 Failed to open device snapscan ; linusb :004:008 error during device I/O

2006-07-09 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, it seems that there's a problem with your snapscan.conf file. If you're using libusb you *must not* have a device line, i.e. you should delete any line stating /dev/usb/scanner0 or similar. The backend will automatically probe all USB devices for a suitable scanner. However, in all the

[sane-devel] Epson 2480 and scanner lamp

2006-07-31 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, I just upgraded to SANE-Backends-1.0.18 and my Epson 2480 works better than ever. Thanks! I have a question/comment about the scanner lamp. This scanner doesn't have an on/off button, so it remains on whenever it's plugged in (I remember a Dilbert strip about this very theory of

[sane-devel] Assistance please!

2006-08-01 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, On Tuesday 01 August 2006 08:31, marcela castro wrote: Who may concernI have Open source software in my PC and I would like to configure my scanner Benq Saw 4300U to work with this system Suse 10.1 http://www.novell.com/linux/ but it is require the firmware upload. driver

[sane-devel] Epson perfection 660 usb - problem with lineart scanning - snapscan backend

2006-09-05 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, When I try to scan in lineart mode, it makes garbage on output. The scan seems misaligned. But if I first make a scan in gray or color mode, and then switch to lineart, it works ! It works ... sometimes :( I acquire a scan in Lineart mode and make a log :

[sane-devel] Annoying Out of MEmory Error...

2006-09-18 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, I own a Acer Flatbed scanner (620 ST) which I use rarely. So I can not exactly tell you, when this error started to occur on my computer. # scanimage scanimage: sane_start: Out of memory Does anybody have an idea, what the heck is going wrong, or how to get rid of that problem? Can

[sane-devel] Out of memory in sanei_scsi_cmd [was: Annoying Out of MEmory Error...]

2006-09-22 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi SCSI experts, a user reported a problem with an Acer 620ST plugged into a Artop Electronic Corp AEC6712D SCSI controller (atp870u driver). The system causing problems is running linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r8, gcc 4.1.1 and glibc-2.4, sane-backends-1.0.18. On this system the following error

[sane-devel] Out of memory in sanei_scsi_cmd [was: Annoying Out of MEmory Error...]

2006-09-24 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi Abel, As far as I can tell I'm issuing a sanei_scsi_cmd with a send buffer of ten bytes and a receive buffer of 130176 bytes. Both should fit into the SCSI buffer of 131072 bytes easily. is 130176 a typo, or does the backend really wants to read 4 bytes more than reserved? (or do I

[sane-devel] Firmware for Epson Stylus CX-1500?

2007-05-01 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, On Monday 30 April 2007 16:57, L? H?ng B?i wrote: Hi everybody, I'm using an Epson Stylus CX-1500. I can scan image from it with snapscan backend. However, the image is green, no red, no blue. It seems that I need to specify a firmware to upload to the scanner. I look in Windows

[sane-devel] problem while found SCSI scanner AGFA SNAPSCAN 1236 1.50 at /dev/sg0

2007-05-01 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, On Monday 30 April 2007 21:34, Y P wrote: as you will see, the scanner is found/recognized, but xsane seems to find his Logitech QuickCam and doesn't give him the choice to tell that's his intensions are to scan, not to webcam :-) He also did tried to add ln -s /dev/sg0 /dev/scanner

[sane-devel] epson perfection 1670 problem

2007-10-05 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, On Sunday 30 September 2007 18:01, Tanguy Eric wrote: When i launch xsane from command line i can see this warming : [snapscan] Scanner warming up - waiting 6 seconds. [snapscan] Scanner warming up - waiting 36 seconds. and after when i ask a scan xsane spend also times warming :

[sane-devel] benoit's sniffer

2007-10-26 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, I've written a small perl script that parses the output of usbsnoop and translates it to snapscan commands. I'll send it to you tomorrow. Regards, Oliver On 26.10.2007, at 11:20, matei kolt wrote: OK, the code with benoit's usb sniffer. Pluging in, a few prewiews and a scan.

[sane-devel] Epson 3490 quirk?

2007-12-10 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, On 07.12.2007, at 15:26, Patrick wrote: I have an Epson 3490. It did work in Ubuntu Edgy but not too well. If I used it in Windoze and then Ubuntu it worked fine. However if it was not re-initialized under windoze every so often it would not work. ... but I get this message when I

[sane-devel] Epson Perfection 1670 USB on Mac 10.3.9

2007-12-18 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, you also need to specify the path to the firmware file in snapscan.conf, which is installed in /usr/local/etc/sane.d/ on OS X, IIRC. The firmware file itself (esfw30.bin) should be contained on the windows driver CD. See http://snapscan.sourceforge.net for some additional infos on the

[sane-devel] Proposed patch for the snapscan semaphore issue

2008-03-18 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, The patch only works for libusb devices. Applying it as is means the backend will now fail hard if you're using a non-pthread build of SANE with a non-libusb access method. I'm not sure such a combination exists. If I'm not mistaken, OS/2 uses pthread by default, so does OS X and all

[sane-devel] Support for Benq Scanwit 2720S

2013-02-25 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Andrew, I'm sorry, but I haven't received any emails from you lately. The last message I got from you is from January 26th. Can you please resent your emails, I'll double check for any over-eager spam filter. Kind regards, Oliver I was working with Oliver Schwartz to add support

[sane-devel] [PATCH] Add support to snapscan for Benq Scanwit 2720S film scanner

2013-03-04 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Andrew, What is the current status? I would call it at least 'Good'. I have used this code to scan over a hundred negatives. But then only I have used it. Others may want something else. I am open to adding to it although I would prefer to get an initial implementation committed before

[sane-devel] Acer 620S, not workkin

2002-01-13 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, after that I run make install ... and do tool/sane-find-scanner but it doesnt reply any model :/ Is the scanner detected by your SCSI controller? Can you see it with cat /proc/scsi/scsi? Please also note that you may experience further problems if you're using the ACARD SCSI

[sane-devel] How to communicate with vendors?

2002-01-16 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Now I am ready to (following your suggestions) write to Acer and ask them for a technical documentation allowing me to write a driver for Linux. Here comes my question: How should I write the letter to achieve maximal possible success? Are there any guidelines of leading such

[sane-devel] Re: Sane-devel digest, Vol 1 #204 - 4 msgs

2002-01-21 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, 2. sane-find-scanner gives. sane-find-scanner: found SCSI scanner Color FlatbedScanner_9 0113 at device /dev/sg0 3. running xsane prompts no devices avaible.. 4. bkw@tellus:~/packages/tarz/scanner$ scanimage -L No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,

[sane-devel] Acer Prisa 620ST

2002-01-22 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Am Dienstag, 22. Januar 2002 18:25 schrieben Sie: Hi, I'm attempting to use sane-1.0.3-10.1 with an Acer Prisa 620ST. An older version of sane worked mostly fine, but the latest version will not scan in color. The debug output shows: sane-1.0.3 contains several bugs in the snapscan

[sane-devel] Upgrading to 1.0.7 - snapscan E20 not detected by scanimage

2002-01-23 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, Upgrading to last version of sane, my Snapscan e20 USB scanner is no longer detected by scanimage. please send me a debug log (export SANE_DEBUG_SAPSCAN=255, then scanimage -L 2debug.log). Regards, Oliver

[sane-devel] Upgrading to 1.0.7 - snapscan E20 not detected by scanimage

2002-01-28 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, It could be a good thing to uncomment the USB entry in the default configration file, right ? This would be a good thing for empty heads ... True, but unfortunately this causes a lot of problems for people that don't have a snapscan scanner. The snapscan backend identifies the scanner by

[sane-devel] Ideas Wanted [Acer ScanWit]

2002-02-03 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi Max, I am still playing with Acer ScanWit 2720S film scanner and I found out some protocol details that allow me to scan. I am about to start writing a quite restricted SANE backend for this thing.

[sane-devel] Problems with Agfa Snapscan e20

2002-02-05 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, I run a scanner Agfa Snapscan e20 on Suse Linux 7.3. I configured Sane 1.0.7 and it's running OK but there is a problem.- When I first boot my computer and when the scan module is being uploaded, my scanner begins to make bizarre noises, I cannot describe them but I thing that's not

[sane-devel] Problems with Agfa Snapscan e20

2002-02-05 Thread Oliver Schwartz
The noise is producing when the computer is starting up, at the end, just before KDM appears. It's like the inside part of the scanner could not go forward/backward... Err... in this case it's hardly a SANE bug, because there's no sane application started. It's more likely that there's some

[sane-devel] AGFA SnapScan e20: It's not in the scanimage list and don't work.

2002-02-09 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, You need also the package usbmgr, It should work even without usbmgr and agfafirm. Besides, what do you use usbmgr for? post-install scanner /usr/local/bin/agfa/agfafirm /dev/usbscanner This should be unneccessary - the backend will load the firmware automatically. Regards, Oliver

[sane-devel] AGFA SnapScan e20: It's not in the scanimage list and don't work.

2002-02-09 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, actually I don't know why I need usbmgr. I tried to use the scanner without usbmgr and it didn't work. I found anywhere the information I need this package. And the scanner is working perfectly... Could you tell me how to use the scanner witout this package?. If you didn't customize any

[sane-devel] Re: snapscan french translations don't appear

2002-02-15 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, yes, saw several of these messages for snapscan and files were installed into /usr/local/share/fr/LC_MESSAGES/. I saw french messages in and I took your mail adress from it :). note that i only have sane-frontends and sane-backends, not xsane. so scanimage and xscanimage shoud

[sane-devel] Sane is definately not Scanner Access Now Easy

2002-02-21 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, concerning your /usr/local/bin is not in $PATH problem: How do you start your root shell? On my system (which is pretty plain SuSE 7.3 when it comes to .profile, login scripts etc), /usr/local/bin is included in the path if I log in as root (i.e. start a shell on a login prompt). There is

[sane-devel] Acer 640BU :-(

2001-09-10 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, This is apparently a developers mailing list. Ummm...I'm I'm in the wrong place, could you kindly point wher I should look? There's only this one list, so that's the place to ask questions. ... As you can see, I have a device listed as Vendor=04a5 ProdID=207e Rev= 1.00. I checked and

[sane-devel] [ANN] SnapScan: new backend version 20010920

2001-09-20 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, thanks to some extensive debugging aid from Carsten Grewe I've fixed some bugs in the firmware upload feature of the current snapscan backend. Also included is support for the SnapScan 1236U, thanks to Klaas Freitag and Sebastien Sable. I've released a new version of the backend which may

[sane-devel] [ANN] SnapScan: new backend version 20010920

2001-09-20 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, Is this one updated in CVS code ? I only use CVS code of sane. No, it's not yet updated in sane CVS. The snapscan project uses it's own CVS at sourceforge for development. However, the snapscan code should work flawlessly with the CVS version of sane. Regards, Oliver

[sane-devel] how to compile snapscan with usb support

2001-09-23 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, configure don't find usb.h . What do I need for it. Only kernel USB support or libusb or something else. You need the kernel include files. usb.h is usually found in /usr/include/linux/usb.h. Depending on your distribution you may have to install a package that contains only the include

[sane-devel] how to compile snapscan with usb support

2001-09-23 Thread Oliver Schwartz
configure don't find usb.h . What do I need for it. Only kernel USB support or libusb or something else. You need the kernel include files. usb.h is usually found in /usr/include/linux/usb.h. Depending on your distribution you may have to install a package that contains only the

[sane-devel] [Fwd: AGFA SnapScan e20]

2001-09-28 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, you should try the latest snapscan backend from http://sourceforge.net/projects/snapscan - currently this is snapscan-20010928.tar.gz. You my also get it directly from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/snapscan/snapscan-20010928.tar.gz please also read the release notes

[sane-devel] [Firmware File Question] Snapscan e20

2001-10-06 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, I run Sane with my usb snapscan e20 scanner whithout any firmware file and nevr noticed any problems until today. Is this a normal use of the program ? Should I use a firmware file ? or is it necessary only for one that notice problems whithout it ? As far as I know most Agfa / Acer

[sane-devel] Agfa Arcus 1200

2001-10-12 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, I have an Agfa Arcus 1200 SCSI scanner that I want to use on a Solaris 2.6 box. I'd like to use SANE, but it looks like none of the back ends that support Agfa products support this particular model. Anyone used one of the existing backends with this model? Anyone know if the there

[sane-devel] Acer Scanwit

2001-10-23 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, I have an Acer Scanwit 2720s film scanner. Is it posible to use it with SANE, XSANE and GIMP? As far as I know: No. If it's command set is similar to Acer flatbed scanners it may be possible to make it work with the snapscan backend, but it may also use some completely different command

[sane-devel] Problem with scanner Agfa Snapscan e20 !

2001-11-11 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, My configuration is the following one : - SuSE 7.2 - Kernel 2.4.4 or 2.4.13 - Sane 1.0.5 - Xsane 0.80 You should upgrade to sane-1.0.6 or use the latest snapscan backend from hpttp://sourceforge.net/projects/snapscan. It will determine automatically if your scanner needs a firmware

[sane-devel] OS/2 version of Sane

2001-11-21 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, It would be easy to implement these changes also for plustek, coolscan, agfafocus, snapscan and tamarack, but I will only add these if I have a chance to get this tested first. Regarding mustek and microtek I know that it works. concerning snapscan: I have an OS/2 partition - it

[sane-devel] OS/2 version of Sane

2001-11-23 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, Are there any developers that have OS/2 and a USB scanner? Well, me ... For that matter, are there any backends other than snapscan that use semaphores with USB? No other backend seems to be using semaphores at all. Regards, Oliver

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