[sane-devel] Microtek Film Scan 35

2006-01-08 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
hangs the SCSI bus. On the other hand the vuescan does a good job with it (too bad it's not free and not open source). Hm, vuescan is reasonably priced, has a user interface, supports it8 targets, process calibration and reasonably good infrared cleaning, and most importantly, actually works...

[sane-devel] Microtek Film Scan 35

2006-01-08 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, On 2006-01-08 14:27, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: Most annoying that it doesn't work with SCSI scanners on 64bit machines, something a recompile would fix. Hence my recent question about write() encapsulation in sanei_scsi.c (which no-one replied to :( ). I didn't answer because I'm not really

[sane-devel] Microtek Film Scan 35

2006-01-08 Thread Andrei V. Toutoukine
On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: of creating (or extending) the SANE back-end? See SANE website, section Contributing. See also the archive of this mailing list for similar questions about writing backends. OK, I'd like to try. Should I contact the manufacturer for protocol

[sane-devel] Microtek Film Scan 35

2006-01-08 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, On 2006-01-08 14:17, Andrei V. Toutoukine wrote: OK, I'd like to try. Should I contact the manufacturer for protocol details or maybe someone has these already? Asking is always a good idea. If they don't have a protocol description, maybe they can give you the source code of the windows

[sane-devel] Microtek Film Scan 35

2006-01-08 Thread abel deuring
Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: Hi, On 2006-01-08 14:27, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: Most annoying that it doesn't work with SCSI scanners on 64bit machines, something a recompile would fix. Hence my recent question about write() encapsulation in sanei_scsi.c (which no-one replied to :( ). I didn't

[sane-devel] Microtek Film Scan 35

2006-01-07 Thread Andrei V. Toutoukine
Dear SANE developers, I've got six years old Microtek Film Scan 35 which nobody cares of at my work. Unfortunately I seen the mark unsupported at SANE web site. Small remark made me confused [ http://www3.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html ] :

[sane-devel] Microtek Film Scan 35

2006-01-07 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, On 2006-01-07 19:48, Andrei V. Toutoukine wrote: What does Probably unsupported mean? Both links gave no hope of course... This means that someone told us that this scanner exists but there is no obvious backend that could support it. But no in-depth analysis was done, e.g. which chipset