[sane-devel] Epson 4990 / v700 Lamp Shut-off

2008-08-25 Thread Gerald Murray
I have been working with the epson2 backend for some time now Does anybody know of any command(s) that will allow me to turn off the scanner's lamps earlier than this? # For cooperating backends: scanimage -n 1 Gerald

[sane-devel] Making Canon CanoScan LiDE 80 work (in Ubuntu)

2008-03-21 Thread Gerald Murray
Quoting JC ubunt2 at gmail.com: Scanner is on a USB connection. USB ID: 0x04a9/0x2214 Status: Unsupported Comment: GL841 based, to be added to genesys backend My question is: How do i run this backend thing? And will running that backend work? Doubts exist on working because the Holtek

[sane-devel] sane-backends-1.0.19.tar.gz.md5 incorrect ?

2008-02-11 Thread Gerald Murray
Hello all, sane-backends-1.0.19.tar.gz.md5 file was expected to be 62 bytes; but downloads as 87977 bytes This needs correction. The commands I executed are shown below. Thanks Gerald What the download page at http://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=30186 says

[sane-devel] sane-backends-1.0.19.tar.gz.md5 incorrect ?

2008-02-11 Thread Gerald Murray
/08, Gerald Murray gmurray at cloudnet.com wrote: Hello all, sane-backends-1.0.19.tar.gz.md5 file was expected to be 62 bytes; but downloads as 87977 bytes This needs correction. The commands I executed are shown below. Thanks Gerald What the download page at http://alioth.debian.org/frs

[sane-devel] Canon CanoScan LiDE 600F

2008-01-03 Thread Gerald Murray
Quoting J?rgen Ernst jrernst at gmx.de: Canon CanoScan LiDE 600F. Is anyone working on a backend to that scanner yet? If not I want to start programming a backend. Ciao J?rgen There is no one working on adding this scanner as of yet, so welcome! There is a lot of information on the sane

[sane-devel] Pentax DSmobile 600

2007-10-11 Thread Gerald Murray
Quoting Lukas Matasovsky lukasm at lumat.at: --snip-- If there's no Lx driver on the CD, I'll ask Pentaxtech to provide one but as this page seems not to be linked to the main site anymore I have my doubts --snip-- - Lukas Lukas, Perhaps you could answer a question on the source that

[sane-devel] HP scanjet 2400

2007-09-11 Thread Gerald Murray
Quoting Emmanuel Counasse manuc66 at gmail.com: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Could you explain me what things in sane driver are really missing for supporting hp scanjet 2400 and what to do to add them ? Thanks St?phane VOLTZ a ?crit : Le lundi 12 f?vrier

[sane-devel] HP scanjet 2400

2007-09-11 Thread Gerald Murray
Quoting Emmanuel Counasse manuc66 at gmail.com: Hi, Could you explain me what things in sane driver are really missing for supporting hp scanjet 2400 and what to do to add them ? Hello Emmanuel, I have not worked on this for quite some time. It has never been functional for the

[sane-devel] Will the CanonScan 3000 Series be supported?

2007-09-09 Thread Gerald Murray
Hi, I also looked at the logs, and found too many registers over the 0x71, the highest number for gl646. There were accesses to 0xb0 thru 0xbd and 0xc1 thru 0xc8. These were curious in that they were numbered non-sequentially over 0xa8, the highest sequential register I noticed. I have no ideas

[sane-devel] Trying to understand GL640

2007-08-10 Thread Gerald Murray
The enum is probably from a different datasheet, possibly an earlier hardware version? A USB control message has an 8 byte setup packet with format byte requesttype, byte request, word value, word index, word length, .. remainder of packet, if any, follows The value shown in

[sane-devel] canon lide 600f support

2007-08-07 Thread Gerald Murray
Hello Sapir, No sane support is in development currently. The chipset is unknown; see http://www.sane-project.org/unsupported/canon-lide-600.html Support is usually initiated by a developer creating additional backend code, and then maintaining that. An invitation to develop is available...

[sane-devel] canon lide 600f support

2007-08-07 Thread Gerald Murray
I don't know how to write a backend. ;-( How can I help to find out which chipset it uses? see: http://www.sane-project.org/contrib.html which provides some tips to look within the documentation/drivers supplied with the scanner. When there is a lack of documentation about a scanner, the

[sane-devel] HP 4890 - Anybody working on it?

2007-08-02 Thread Gerald Murray
There is work already done as far as the genesys backend is concerned. The other part remaining is specific to the GL843 chip. The work can be estimated, as the GL841 backend is working, the GL646 backend is in progress, and anything else - GL843 - is a TODO. An invitation to a developer is

[sane-devel] libusb and sane backend

2007-08-02 Thread Gerald Murray
however, the backend doesn't work, the port aparently opens well, but the calls to usb_get_descriptor, usb_control_msg never return. Any one knows if there is any -bad- interaction between calling directly libusb and other sane libraries? This is dependent on the individual scanner. When

[sane-devel] HP ScanJet 2400

2007-07-17 Thread Gerald Murray
Known problem, same result. The genesys646 backend has never been working as far as I know. This backend should be considered experimental for the gl646 scanner. Gerald

[sane-devel] Canon CanoScan LiDE 70 chips?

2007-07-08 Thread Gerald Murray
There certainly are times when it is beneficial to know the chipset. That is limited to chips that have documentation available, (which is less than all scaner chips). There is another method of developing a usable driver for scanners. That involves having an OS upon which it does work, then

[sane-devel] LSB DDK: Support for scanner drivers/SANE into LSB 3.2?

2007-06-26 Thread Gerald Murray
Ren? Rebe wrote: I take a look into what is necessary to get SANE into the LSB over the weekend. Did you already find out something? Hi Till, I took a quick look. It looks like the lsb project wants headers --stripped of all comments and programmer remarks; the library would be empty

[sane-devel] md5 Buffer Error

2007-06-20 Thread Gerald Murray
/home/User/sane-backends/frontend/scanimage.c:291: undefined reference to `_md5_buffer' There should be two leading underscores before md5_buffer. This is resolved in the frontend/Makefile by $(LIBLIB) which links lib/liblib.a Header is include/md5.h Perhaps the compiler/linker being used

[sane-devel] Canon Canoscan 3000ex

2007-06-16 Thread Gerald Murray
REPOST (original lost in transit?) How can I start to write a backend? Hello, welcome! read: sane-backends-1.0.18/doc/backend-writing.txt http://www.xs4all.nl/~ljm/SANE-faq.html what is known about the scanner documentation is in http://www.sane-project.org/unsupported/canon-3000.html good

[sane-devel] Fnctl Functions

2007-06-12 Thread Gerald Murray
sanei_usb.c: In function `sanei_usb_open': sanei_usb.c:1049: warning: implicit declaration of function `fcntl' sanei_usb.c:1049: error: `F_GETFL' undeclared (first use in this function) ^ typo sanei_usb.c:1049: error: (Each undeclared identifier is

[sane-devel] Sane-Find-Scanner Detects Mouse

2007-05-20 Thread Gerald Murray
Quoting Hugh McMaster dasjournal at gmail.com: Hi everyone, I just ran the sane-find-scanner command on my computer, and I noticed that in the verbose output, the programme detected my USB mouse. I assume that is would be the behaviour of libusb, since it detects most USB devices. Is that

[sane-devel] Adding Scanner to Backend Configuration

2007-05-12 Thread Gerald Murray
Quoting Hugh McMaster dasjour...@gmail.com: My scanner (Canon Lide 70) is not supported currently, but (I hope) will be supported by the Genesys backend sometime soon. Anyway, if I added the Scanner IDs to the Genesys backend Conf.in and recompiled, would that allow any usage of the scanner

[sane-devel] canon lide 70 support

2007-04-04 Thread Gerald Murray
Quoting Willi Geffers geff...@informatik.rwth-aachen.de: The scanner doesn't appear in the list of supported devices. But the list hasn't been updated since july 2006 and most of the supported scanners are no longer available. So I'm wondering whether the Canon LiDE 70 will be supported in

[sane-devel] Setting up a Control message

2007-02-15 Thread Gerald Murray
Rene: The log that you sent me cgb1x1.log was very nearly worthless. The log showed 2644 URBS out, 639 of those were URB_FUNCTION_RESET_PIPE ending with 3 URB_FUNCTION_ABORT_PIPE out, and 3 back. That is about 1 in 4 urbs were resets. Use only a scanner log that ends in a successful scan, best is

[sane-devel] Wrong detection of Plustek parallel port scanner

2007-02-04 Thread Gerald Murray
Quoting Frank Beimfohr frank.beimf...@web.de: I've installed sane 1.0.18 on xubuntu 6.10. scanimage -L returns device `plustek_pp:parport0' is a Plustek 600P/6000P parallel port flatbed scanner Unfortunately, my scanner is a Plustek 12000P. The scan result is just trash. I haven't

[sane-devel] request_identity2

2006-12-07 Thread Gerald Murray
Quoting Alessandro Zummo azummo-li...@towertech.it: Hello, I'm searching documentation for the epson ESC i command, used in D1 and D7 scanners and implemented in the request_identity2 function in the epson.c driver. From earlier documentation on printer Epson JX80, it is a switch

[sane-devel] Weirdness with Canon FS2720U

2006-08-03 Thread Gerald Murray
Quoting Tabor Kelly tkelly-sane-de...@taborandtashell.net: What I would love for someone to take a look at is URB 289-300 in this file (https://projects.cecs.pdx.edu/~kellyt/SANE-FS2720U/index.cgi/browser/sniffs/just_preview_color_negative_bw.LOG). It looks like the windows driver

[sane-devel] HP Scanjet 2400c for genesys

2006-07-15 Thread Gerald Murray
IIRC, after power up, I just selected mono and started scanning. If you want, I can do this again and carefully record the single steps. Bye, Uwe Hi, For now, I do not it re-done. I am going to try to get an understanding of what was done in that log, and why. From what I have

[sane-devel] Genesys, Canon LiDE 35/40/50/60

2006-04-28 Thread Gerald Murray
Hello list and Henning, For Canon LiDE 35 or 50: What steps are to be followed to gain access to the calibration area? I have seen on Ebay that Canon sells separately a service manual on a compact disk. Does anyone know if that disk would contain the instructions to service that scanner?

[sane-devel] Genesys, Canon LiDE 35/40/50/60

2006-04-25 Thread Gerald Murray
Pierre wrote: So, if you own a scanner of the Canon LiDE 35/40/50/60 series, please try the code from the experimental module. The low power mode is used when scanning at resolutions =600dpi, and during calibration. Errors are most likely when the scanner does a fast feed to the scanning area.

[sane-devel] Canon Lide 50 (Genesys) - Added threshold for BW (lineart)

2006-03-27 Thread Gerald Murray
Quoting Pierre Willenbrock pie...@pirsoft.dnsalias.org: Laurent Charpentier schrieb: Hi Everyone, I would like to submit a patch for the genesys backend (Canon LIDE 50). The patch adds the threshold feature for black/white mode (in 1.0.17 the threshold is set to 50% and can't be

[sane-devel] Any further with canoscan LiDE 500F?

2006-03-27 Thread Gerald Murray
Quoting Jeff Shrowder shrow...@uniting.com.au: I've used SnoopPro to log the traffic over the usb and got this enormous log :-) but where to from here? I can do 'lots of staring at usb logs' - there's plenty to stare at :-) What am I looking for? Jeff A comparison of log data with canon

[sane-devel] gunt

2006-03-23 Thread Gerald Murray
Quoting Nehpets Farnkiln plamt...@yahoo.com: So I'm working on a project wherein I've removed the CCD and stepper motor from the case, and have it mounted elsewhere. I'm looking to get the image data from the scanner one scanline at a time (rather than the entirety of all the

[sane-devel] Any further with canoscan LiDE 500F?

2006-03-21 Thread Gerald Murray
So, what do I need to log the data moving over the USB bus? Jeff Hi Jeff Search the mail archive list for usbsnoopy. The search should yield a site where that program for use on windows can be obtained, and there should be examples in the list that have answers on how to use it as well.

[sane-devel] Writinng a driver for canoscan 3000

2006-02-10 Thread Gerald Murray
Quoting Marbrier Sebastien sebastien.marbr...@laposte.net: About the matter about the controller I tried to open my other scanner but I saw the design is made to destroy it if I try to remove the metal plate above I was thinking that the metal plate is there to guard against rf interference. If

Subject: Re: [sane-devel] USB sanner only as root

2006-01-19 Thread Gerald Murray
Any idea how to change this permanentely? Any help appreciated -- mvh Mogens J?ger UDEV can be used to manage permissions. I am using udev.rules (ubuntu hoary, udev-075, linux-2.6.14) (the kernel must be at least 2.6.10 or newer; use may vary by distribution) I also have

[sane-devel] Does the Canon Lide 80 work?

2005-12-29 Thread Gerald Murray
Quoting Henning Meier-Geinitz henn...@meier-geinitz.de: Hi, On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 08:35:39PM -0500, golan...@aol.com wrote: I've noticed lots of talk of the genesys backend working with canon lide 35, 40, 50 and 60 but what of Lide 80? Is support already in there or is it planned?

[sane-devel] Genesys backend update to Dec 06, cvs

2005-12-07 Thread Gerald Murray
Hi all, # These tests results are using sane-backends-20051206-cvs: GL841 - Canoscan lide35: This has changed for the worse since Nov 24. I have previously made scans at 150, 300, 600, in color. Now the 'image' is no longer recognizable. color, 75dpi, (scan fails, obtaining 0 feed steps, then

[sane-devel] Genesys HP scanjet 2400

2005-12-04 Thread Gerald Murray
Hello all, Scanner: hp scanjet 2400 using sane-backends-cvs20051124 Expected completion date: unknown, it is ready when it is ready Update from previous post: key: - previously reported; + update : - Head moves two times the expected distance. - Excessive time in genesys_warmup_lamp() +

[sane-devel] sanei_usb.c

2005-06-29 Thread Gerald Murray
Quoting Paul Smedley p...@smedley.info: Hi Gerald, =20 On 28/6/2005, Gerald Murray gmur...@cloudnet.com wrote: =20 Quoting Paul Smedley p...@smedley.info: One query I have though is about devname =20 I see in sanei_usb.h that the libusb format for this is libusb:busno:devno =20

[sane-devel] sanei_usb.c

2005-06-28 Thread Gerald Murray
Quoting Paul Smedley p...@smedley.info: Hi All, I'm working on adding support for USB scanners for Sane on OS/2. =20 OS/2 doesn't have libusb, but has a library usbcalls that provides=20 similar functionality, albeit most of the calls use different syntax. =20 I have sane-find-scanner

[sane-devel] Back-end for CanoScan 3200F?

2005-06-27 Thread Gerald Murray
Quoting Lauri Pirttiaho lauri.pirtti...@luukku.com: Hello, =20 A while back there was some discussion about the back-end for CanoScan 3200F, a currently unsupported scanner. I would like to know if someone is actively working on this scanner. Also if anyone has definitive information about

[sane-devel] hp 5200c usb problem

2005-06-21 Thread Gerald Murray
MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.2.2 X-Originating-IP: 209.188.109.9 T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=01 Dev#= 2 Spd=12 MxC= ^^