[sane-devel] Feature freeze for SANE 1.0.10
Henning Meier-Geinitz writes: > On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 10:20:46AM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > > Henning Meier-Geinitz writes: > > > > > Does it make sense to add a .desc file in the external section? So > > > the epson kowa backend would show up on the SANE webpage as external > > > backend. > > > > I guess it would. While we are at it, I guess you could also add > > "Image Scan! for Linux" to the frontends page. > > There is a link now. However, I just found out that iscan only works > with Epson scanners. From frontend/pisa_sane_scan.cc: > > if ( 0 == ::strcasecmp ( ppdevice_list [ i ]->vendor, "epson" ) ) Harrumpf. I'll see what I can do about that (read: what I'm allowed to do about that in our official packages). Hmm, a configure option perhaps? That could keep both sides happy. > And in fact, it ignores all my scanners. If I "fake" an Epson scanner, > the device is opened and the option descriptors are read but nothing > more. So iscan is not really a SANE frontend in my opinion. Agreed on the frontend part. Personally I think it'd be nice if iscan supported scanner from other manufacturers as well, but I'm not sure what the people who foot the bill think about that. > So I'll add a comment to the SANE frontends page. > > Still waiting for the epsonkw.desc :-) Don't hold your breath :-) I'm up to (way over) my ears in work. -- Olaf MeeuwissenEPSON KOWA Corporation, ECS GnuPG key: 6BE37D90/AB6B 0D1F 99E7 1BF5 EB97 976A 16C7 F27D 6BE3 7D90 Penguin's lib! -- I hack, therefore I am -- LPIC-2
[sane-devel] Feature freeze for SANE 1.0.10
Hi, On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 10:20:46AM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > Henning Meier-Geinitz writes: > > > Does it make sense to add a .desc file in the external section? So > > the epson kowa backend would show up on the SANE webpage as external > > backend. > > I guess it would. While we are at it, I guess you could also add > "Image Scan! for Linux" to the frontends page. There is a link now. However, I just found out that iscan only works with Epson scanners. From frontend/pisa_sane_scan.cc: if ( 0 == ::strcasecmp ( ppdevice_list [ i ]->vendor, "epson" ) ) And in fact, it ignores all my scanners. If I "fake" an Epson scanner, the device is opened and the option descriptors are read but nothing more. So iscan is not really a SANE frontend in my opinion. So I'll add a comment to the SANE frontends page. Still waiting for the epsonkw.desc :-) Bye, Henning
[sane-devel] Feature freeze for SANE 1.0.10
Henning Meier-Geinitz writes: > Does it make sense to add a .desc file in the external section? So > the epson kowa backend would show up on the SANE webpage as external > backend. I guess it would. While we are at it, I guess you could also add "Image Scan! for Linux" to the frontends page. > If yes, could you (or someone else) provide a epson-kw.desc (or > whatever name)? Could you send me a sample? I'll see what I can do. -- Olaf MeeuwissenEPSON KOWA Corporation, ECS GnuPG key: 6BE37D90/AB6B 0D1F 99E7 1BF5 EB97 976A 16C7 F27D 6BE3 7D90 Penguin's lib! -- I hack, therefore I am -- LPIC-2
[sane-devel] Feature freeze for SANE 1.0.10
Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > Does it make sense to add a .desc file in the external section? So the > epson kowa backend would show up on the SANE webpage as external > backend. > > If yes, could you (or someone else) provide a epson-kw.desc (or > whatever name)? It would be even a good idea to rename the driver into epson-kw or better epson-kowa, this would make packaging of SANE for distros much easier. Till
[sane-devel] Feature freeze for SANE 1.0.10
Hi, On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 09:51:30AM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > A new version of "Image Scan! for Linux" will be released on January > 21, 2003 to add support for the GT-9800F (a.k.a. Perfection 3200 > PHOTO). This package contains a GUI frontend and a modified version > of the SANE epson backend (originally based on 1.0.3, later updated to > 1.0.6). It also includes a proprietary module that is only used with > EPSON scanners, but I believe "Image Scan! for Linux" is usable with > other scanners. It's just that the results may not be as good as they > probably could be. Does it make sense to add a .desc file in the external section? So the epson kowa backend would show up on the SANE webpage as external backend. If yes, could you (or someone else) provide a epson-kw.desc (or whatever name)? Bye, Henning
[sane-devel] Feature freeze for SANE 1.0.10
Klaas Freitag writes: > I was notified that Epson released a new frontend, Image Scan! for > linux. It is limited to Epson devices. The source code distribution > contains a epson.c and dll-code. Is that the same as that in SANE > 1.0.10? A new version of "Image Scan! for Linux" will be released on January 21, 2003 to add support for the GT-9800F (a.k.a. Perfection 3200 PHOTO). This package contains a GUI frontend and a modified version of the SANE epson backend (originally based on 1.0.3, later updated to 1.0.6). It also includes a proprietary module that is only used with EPSON scanners, but I believe "Image Scan! for Linux" is usable with other scanners. It's just that the results may not be as good as they probably could be. # If anyone has "successfully" used "Image Scan! for Linux" with other # scanners, please drop me a note. Two other proprietary modules are used to interface with the GT-7200U and GT-7300U (a.k.a. Perfection 1250/Perfection 1250 PHOTO and Perfection 1260/ Perfection 1260 PHOTO). For a full list of supported scanners, see: http://www.epkowa.co.jp/english/linux_e/lsd_e.html Oh, what the heck! Here is the cut-and-paste: * Perfection 610/Perfection 640U/Perfection 1200S, 1200U, 1200U PHOTO/Perfection 1240U/ Perfection 1250, 1250 PHOTO/Perfection 1260, 1260 PHOTO/Perfection 1640SU, 1640SU PHOTO/Perfection 1650/Perfection 1650 PHOTO/Perfection 1660 PHOTO/Perfection 2400 PHOTO/Perfection 2450 PHOTO/ Expression 1600/ Expression 1680/ Expression 1640XL/GT-1,1+/GT-3 Note: installing "Image Scan! for Linux" will clobber (at least the symlinks to) the epson backend from sane-backends. -- Olaf MeeuwissenEPSON KOWA Corporation, ECS GnuPG key: 6BE37D90/AB6B 0D1F 99E7 1BF5 EB97 976A 16C7 F27D 6BE3 7D90 Penguin's lib! -- I hack, therefore I am -- LPIC-2
[sane-devel] Feature freeze for SANE 1.0.10
On Monday 13 January 2003 13:23, Karl Heinz Kremer wrote: >Gene Heskett said: >> On Monday 13 January 2003 03:38, Klaas Freitag wrote: >>>On Sunday 12 January 2003 22:10, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: Hi, We are now in feature freeze for SANE 1.0.10. That means, no more features are allowed to be included in CVS. Bug fixes and documentation updates are allowed, however. Further time table: 2003-01-25: Code freeze 2003-02-01: Release >>> >>>Hi, >>> >>>I was notified that Epson released a new frontend, Image Scan! >>> for linux. It is limited to Epson devices. The source code >>> distribution contains a epson.c and dll-code. Is that the same >>> as that in SANE 1.0.10? > >The backend in IScan is a heavily modified 1.0.5 version of the > EPSON backends. Some of the changes in the official backend went > into the IScan backend, but it's based on a fairly old version. > >> No. Thats for driving the USB based 1250u and 1260u, and >> possibly one or 2 others. I use it here, albeit in a >> roundabout way. the > >The IScan backend supports pretty much all EPSON scanners (with > the exception of the Perfection 660, which is a new scanner only > sold in Europe, and the Perfection 600, which is supported by one > of the other Sane backends). > >[ ... ] > >> The epson code in the sane-backends package is AFAIK, for the >> parallel port or possibly scsi port epsons, but thats a wild >> guess on my part, I've never tried to use it here. > >That's a pretty wild guess... We sometimes call those SWAG, for Scientific Wild Assed Guess. :) Been known to make them before. The official EPSON backend supports > all EPSON scanners with the exception of the Perfection > 600/650/1250/1260. Some of >the older par-port scanners may also not work, but at least their > command language is supported :-) -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
[sane-devel] Feature freeze for SANE 1.0.10
Hi, On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:58:13AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > The epson code in the sane-backends package is AFAIK, for the > parallel port or possibly scsi port epsons, but thats a wild guess > on my part, I've never tried to use it here. Here is a list of devices that are supported by the Epson backend that will be in SANE 1.0.10: http://www.mostang.com/sane/sane-backends-cvs.html#EPSON Bye, Henning
[sane-devel] Feature freeze for SANE 1.0.10
Gene Heskett said: > On Monday 13 January 2003 03:38, Klaas Freitag wrote: >>On Sunday 12 January 2003 22:10, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> We are now in feature freeze for SANE 1.0.10. That means, no >>> more features are allowed to be included in CVS. Bug fixes and >>> documentation updates are allowed, however. >>> >>> Further time table: >>> 2003-01-25: Code freeze >>> 2003-02-01: Release >> >>Hi, >> >>I was notified that Epson released a new frontend, Image Scan! for >> linux. It is limited to Epson devices. The source code >> distribution contains a epson.c and dll-code. Is that the same as that >> in SANE 1.0.10? The backend in IScan is a heavily modified 1.0.5 version of the EPSON backends. Some of the changes in the official backend went into the IScan backend, but it's based on a fairly old version. > > No. Thats for driving the USB based 1250u and 1260u, and possibly one > or 2 others. I use it here, albeit in a roundabout way. the The IScan backend supports pretty much all EPSON scanners (with the exception of the Perfection 660, which is a new scanner only sold in Europe, and the Perfection 600, which is supported by one of the other Sane backends). [ ... ] > > The epson code in the sane-backends package is AFAIK, for the > parallel port or possibly scsi port epsons, but thats a wild guess on > my part, I've never tried to use it here. That's a pretty wild guess... The official EPSON backend supports all EPSON scanners with the exception of the Perfection 600/650/1250/1260. Some of the older par-port scanners may also not work, but at least their command language is supported :-) Karl Heinz
[sane-devel] Feature freeze for SANE 1.0.10
On Monday 13 January 2003 03:38, Klaas Freitag wrote: >On Sunday 12 January 2003 22:10, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: >> Hi, >> >> We are now in feature freeze for SANE 1.0.10. That means, no >> more features are allowed to be included in CVS. Bug fixes and >> documentation updates are allowed, however. >> >> Further time table: >> 2003-01-25: Code freeze >> 2003-02-01: Release > >Hi, > >I was notified that Epson released a new frontend, Image Scan! for > linux. It is limited to Epson devices. The source code > distribution contains a epson.c and dll-code. Is that the same as > that in SANE 1.0.10? No. Thats for driving the USB based 1250u and 1260u, and possibly one or 2 others. I use it here, albeit in a roundabout way. the gui won't build, but the backend does, so after the gui build fails, I go ahead and do a make install, and then I get it listed as a GT-7200 choice when I run xscanimage or xsane. It works just fine on my 1250u. The epson code in the sane-backends package is AFAIK, for the parallel port or possibly scsi port epsons, but thats a wild guess on my part, I've never tried to use it here. -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
[sane-devel] Feature freeze for SANE 1.0.10
On Sunday 12 January 2003 22:10, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > Hi, > > We are now in feature freeze for SANE 1.0.10. That means, no more > features are allowed to be included in CVS. Bug fixes and > documentation updates are allowed, however. > > Further time table: > 2003-01-25: Code freeze > 2003-02-01: Release Hi, I was notified that Epson released a new frontend, Image Scan! for linux. It is limited to Epson devices. The source code distribution contains a=20 epson.c and dll-code. Is that the same as that in SANE 1.0.10? Thanks, Klaas =2D-=20 Was auch immer geschieht :Klaas Freitag Nie d=FCrft ihr so tief sinken, mail frei...@suse.de von dem Kakao, durch den man euch zieht, SuSE Labs, Nuernberg auch noch zu trinken! - E. Kaestner
[sane-devel] Feature freeze for SANE 1.0.10
Hi, We are now in feature freeze for SANE 1.0.10. That means, no more features are allowed to be included in CVS. Bug fixes and documentation updates are allowed, however. Further time table: 2003-01-25: Code freeze 2003-02-01: Release After code freeze only fixes of grave bugs that render a backend completely unusable or break compilation and documentation updates are accepted. Bye, Henning
