Re: [sane-devel] Possible to make test backend to slow down?

2019-06-11 Thread m. allan noah
You seem to be prone to X/Y problems. I expect almost no backends to allow you to set command line options in the config file. But, I'm not sure that is really what you are looking for. Can you explain exactly what you are trying to do? allan On Tue, Jun 11, 2019, 6:34 PM r. a. schmied wrote:

Re: [sane-devel] Sane backends HP 4570c

2019-02-04 Thread m. allan noah
Your emails are reaching the list. I know nothing about MacOS, however. allan On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 4:05 AM Umberto Cerrato wrote: > > Please guys I need some help. I’m on macOS. > > As I said in another email, is there someone who got sane backends work on > macOS? Thank you > > PS: > Could

Re: [sane-devel] How to make a custom app respond to SANE commands?

2019-02-03 Thread m. allan noah
It is all here: http://sane-project.org/html/ but you'll probably need to refer to the source code to fill in any gaps. allan On Sun, Feb 3, 2019 at 9:02 PM Mark DM wrote: > > I have a custom app for a non SANE compatible scanner. I have looked around > the web to see what I can find aboy the

Re: [sane-devel] sane-find-scanner finds Canon Canoscan N24OU, scanimage -L does not

2018-11-19 Thread m. allan noah
From the release notes of our last release: Note 3: The Linux USB3 workaround which was added in version 1.0.25 is now disabled by default. If you have difficulty using a scanner which previously worked, or intermittent scanner availability, try setting the new environment variable

Re: [sane-devel] sane-pixma TS6150

2018-09-15 Thread m. allan noah
Did you build sane-backends without libusb support too? allan On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 3:17 PM Giles Knap wrote: > > Hi Rolf, > > I now have tried your latest driver from your OOA on a clean install of > Ubuntu. > > In this case I cannot see the scanner at all. Can you advise as to possible >

Re: [sane-devel] Epson Perfection V37/v200 support SANE.

2018-09-10 Thread m. allan noah
I think the authors of the code you are patching are not on this mailing list, as they are not members of the sane project. allan On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 1:41 PM Robert A. Schmied wrote: > > aloha camil > > hopefully posting to the sane development list will suffice, > but there might also be a

Re: [sane-devel] Canon MAXIFY MB5300 series

2018-09-08 Thread m. allan noah
On Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 7:20 AM Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > > Hi, > > innocence.fa...@gmx.de writes: > > > Hi All, > > as it seems that this list is largely unmaintained (the below message > > has been sitting in quarantine for weeks now without any action), I > > Sorry to hear that. > @allan> Are

Re: [sane-devel] General user experience for me with Canon DR 9080C and 7080C

2018-08-12 Thread m. allan noah
Hmm, I don't recall any such report in the past with those scanners, but other scanners have problems with Linux kernel USB behavior. Can you try to run your scanning program with the following environment variable, and see if the problem persists? SANE_USB_WORKAROUND=1 If you still have

Re: [sane-devel] Resolution: range or list?

2018-08-01 Thread m. allan noah
On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 6:18 PM, Brian Potkin wrote: > On Wed 01 Aug 2018 at 09:48:01 -0400, m. allan noah wrote: > >> Most inexpensive scanners only support a few discrete resolutions. I >> would not be surprised if the older version of that backend was >> scaling the scan

Re: [sane-devel] question about Panasonic KV-S2087 driver

2018-06-07 Thread m. allan noah
I can think of a few options: 1. There are three panasonic backends in sane already, perhaps one of them could be modified to support this machine: http://sane-project.org/sane-backends.html#S-KVS20XX 2. Contact Panasonic, and ask them to make the modifications or give away the source 3. Reverse

Re: [sane-devel] How to add "scan source" to sane driver

2018-06-05 Thread m. allan noah
Read sections 4.3.6 and 4.3.7 of http://sane-project.org/html/doc009.html for info on setting up options. You can also look at the source code of existing backends for examples of how to setup a 'source' option. allan On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 10:07 PM, sunj...@newbeiyang.com wrote: > Hello

Re: [sane-devel] scanimage lost image data

2018-05-25 Thread m. allan noah
Most sane options are provided by the backend (driver), not by scanimage. So, you need to tell us what version of sane-backends you are using, and what scanner you are using. allan On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 9:33 PM, Yu Jian (余坚) wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I use the scanimage

Re: [sane-devel] Are "scanimage" options sequence dependent?

2018-05-15 Thread m. allan noah
Some scanners do not have the same list of resolutions in flatbed and ADF modes, so I would expect that selecting the resolution first could cause that resolution to be ignored when you later switch source. However, if the scanner in question supports 300 dpi in both flatbed and ADF, i would call

Re: [sane-devel] Scanner-based compression for Fujitsu FI-5900c on 1.0.27?

2018-05-15 Thread m. allan noah
Commenting out that line is correct, given that later code uses ifdef. I don't think you will need any other changes. Please show us the output of scanimage --help, and your scanning command, and any errors it produces. allan On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 7:08 PM, Wes Rishel

Re: [sane-devel] canon lide 200 sane-backends-1.0.27 genesys_gl847 backend

2018-05-11 Thread m. allan noah
On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 6:53 PM, Robert A. Schmied wrote: > saners (and xsaners) > > the manpage for sane-genesys reads in part: > > CONFIGURATION > The contents of the genesys.conf file is a list of usb lines > containing vendor and product ids that

Re: [sane-devel] XSANE fails to detect any scanner.

2018-05-11 Thread m. allan noah
On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 10:31 AM, Aveek Basu wrote: > Hi All, > > I did some more investigation and here are the details in short: > > *1. libusb version 0.1-4 is not installed:* > > It has been observed in Ubuntu 17.10 (x86) / (x64) & Ubuntu 18.04 that libusb > version

Re: [sane-devel] How to limit the scanner discovery to only network/WiFi scanners?

2018-05-10 Thread m. allan noah
Modify /etc/sane.d/dll.conf, and comment out all the backends you don't need. allan On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 1:13 PM, Yuri wrote: > I use scanimage from the sane-backends-1.0.27_1 package on FreeBSD. > > Commands like `scanimage -L` or `scanimage --resolution 600` run a discovery

Re: [sane-devel] Martin passed away

2018-03-24 Thread m. allan noah
Rob, I am sorry to hear this. Martin maintained our Dutch translation, and provided support on this mailing list for more than a decade. He was a consistent, dependable contributor, who gave of his time to improve our little corner of the world. Our condolences to you and your family. allan On

Re: [sane-devel] Looking for network scanner connection information

2018-01-22 Thread m. allan noah
The sane canon_dr backend does not support network scanners. You will need to do some programming to make it work. allan On Jan 22, 2018 7:48 PM, "Jimi Damon" wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking to get my Canon dr-c225w working with my Ubuntu 16.04 distro. > > The scanner is wifi

Re: [sane-devel] Cannot connect to my Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300i: connect_fd: could not open device: 3

2017-12-05 Thread m. allan noah
Well, you could git bisect between sane-backends 1.0.25 and 1.0.27, and find the commit where it breaks. Can you show the command you used to set the env var? allan On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 2:10 PM, Max Westen wrote: > Hi Allan, > > I've tried setting the env setting

Re: [sane-devel] Cannot connect to my Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300i: connect_fd: could not open device: 3

2017-12-05 Thread m. allan noah
Sounds like the typical Linux USB problem. Please see this statement from the sane 1.0.27 release notes: Note 3: The Linux USB3 workaround which was added in version 1.0.25 is now disabled by default. If you have difficulty using a scanner which previously worked, or intermittent scanner

Re: [sane-devel] [inactive] options

2017-11-30 Thread m. allan noah
The page size options are disabled when you are using the flatbed, but you should not need them. The bounds of the x/y options should be set to the maximum supported by the flatbed in that case. It is possible this is a bug in the old version of sane-backends you are using. Can you provide your

Re: [sane-devel] Saned Tutorial is not correct -

2017-11-08 Thread m. allan noah
We are not the authors of the tutorial with the error. allan On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 10:29 PM, Alvaro Gil wrote: > Hi, the saned tutorial is not correct on this page: > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SaneDaemonTutorial > > Lots of people are having this issue: >

Re: [sane-devel] Fujitsu iX500 - No scanners were identified.

2017-10-23 Thread m. allan noah
nd's manpage. > > # Not checking for parallel port scanners. > > # Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports > # can't be detected by this program. > > # You may want to run this program as root to find all devices. Once you > # found t

Re: [sane-devel] Fujitsu iX500 - No scanners were identified.

2017-10-22 Thread m. allan noah
My notebook has got all USB ports USB 3.0 and I don't have USB 2 hub to test. > > Anyway using cable with old USB 2.0 B plug is simple workaround. > > If I can provide any debug data, which can help to fix the issue, please let > me > know and I can provide it for both cables. > &g

Re: [sane-devel] VIDAR Digitizer

2017-10-13 Thread m. allan noah
Make some scans with the scanner on windows, and capture the USB packets with wireshark. Then put the wireshark logs up on the web for others to look at, while you attempt to make sense of them too :) allan On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 12:46 PM, Mark Thurston wrote: > Dear

Re: [sane-devel] Best way to stop scanimage?

2017-09-28 Thread m. allan noah
Just let it complete? allan On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 10:30 AM, Jeff Sadowski wrote: > Is there a good way to stop scanimage? Other signals to send to it that it > may prefer? > > It seems sometimes if I stop it I need to reset the scanner. > > > -- > sane-devel mailing

Re: [sane-devel] Fujitsu scanner issues

2017-09-27 Thread m. allan noah
You've cut out a bit too much of the log for me to see what is going on. Perhaps compress a full log and send it to me directly. allan On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 5:52 PM, Chris Ott wrote: > > > I wrote a scanning program that uses the Sane library eight or nine years >

Re: [sane-devel] [PATCH 3/3] saned: reorganize flags, remove run_mode SANED_RUN_DEBUG

2017-09-10 Thread m. allan noah
Feel free to update the NEWS file, I'll incorporate your changes when we ship 1.0.28 allan On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 6:55 PM, Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca wrote: > Hi Olaf, > >> Apologies for the late follow-up. Shame on me for pinging you on the >> bug report for no follow-up

Re: [sane-devel] Sane_debug not available and front buttons for i1220 not shown in scanimage -A

2017-09-06 Thread m. allan noah
kely case my request is ignored, it is possible > for me to sniff packets on windows or linux and add support to the backend > myself (I will look for a driver programmer for help)? > > Fan > > > > 在2017年08月22 21时02分, "m. allan noah"<kitno...@gmail.com>写道:

Re: [sane-devel] Sane_debug not available and front buttons for i1220 not shown in scanimage -A

2017-08-22 Thread m. allan noah
without any mentions of buttons. In the case that I have to > contact kodak, what should I ask them for? > > Fan > > > > 在2017年08月18 20时24分, "m. allan noah"<kitno...@gmail.com>写道: > > > kds_i1200 would have to provide button support. I suggest you contac

Re: [sane-devel] Sane_debug not available and front buttons for i1220 not shown in scanimage -A

2017-08-18 Thread m. allan noah
kds_i1200 would have to provide button support. I suggest you contact kodak. allan On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 12:14 AM, fm8758ye wrote: > I am trying to implement scanbd with the scanner as a scan station. However, > I got stopped at the first step as scanimage -A only shows

Re: [sane-devel] Olaf

2017-08-12 Thread m. allan noah
Thanks for the heads up, Curtis. I've taken care of this. allan On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 11:59 AM, Curtis Graham wrote: > Hi Olaf, > > This was sent to me only it looks like. Could you look into this please. > > Thank You, > Curtis > > -- Forwarded message

Re: [sane-devel] Scanning With Nikon Coolscan LS40 / IVED

2017-07-28 Thread m. allan noah
You might try sane-backends 1.0.27, which includes the following statement in its release notes: Note 3: The Linux USB3 workaround which was added in version 1.0.25 is now disabled by default. If you have difficulty using a scanner which previously worked, or intermittent scanner availability,

Re: [sane-devel] [janitorial] leading whitespace: spaces XOR tabs

2017-07-20 Thread m. allan noah
Olaf, you make a pretty convincing case, especially as regards to your wider than average exposure to the codebase. If you feel strongly about this, and are willing to do the work (which I think will be harder than you expect), then I will remove my objections. allan -- sane-devel mailing list:

Re: [sane-devel] [janitorial] leading whitespace: spaces XOR tabs

2017-07-12 Thread m. allan noah
1. I routinely use git blame to find out when I changed some line of code. A massive whitespace commit would wreck that. Yes, there are other ways to get that info after such a cleanup, but I'm lazy :) 2. I've read a great deal of other people's code over the years, and I am generally stumped by

Re: [sane-devel] Scan quality enhancements/processing (vs Windows with Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500)

2017-07-09 Thread m. allan noah
On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 2:54 PM, Matt Garman <matthew.gar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Allan, > > Thank you for taking the time to provide some feedback and look into this! > > More commentary inline below: > > On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 12:06 PM, m. allan noah <kitno...@g

Re: [sane-devel] Scan quality enhancements/processing (vs Windows with Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500)

2017-07-07 Thread m. allan noah
Matt- I wrote both the sane-fujitsu backend, and the sanei_magic library that it uses to provide the deskew/crop, etc functions. I'll try to answer your questions as best I can. BTW, sorry I did not reply sooner- I have been traveling, and wanted to write something a bit longer than I could stand

Re: [sane-devel] ScanSnap S1100 on Linux Mint

2017-06-23 Thread m. allan noah
gt;> >>> Since Mint is based on Ubuntu, Rolf Bensch's PPA can help you: >>> >>> https://launchpad.net/~rolfbensch/+archive/ubuntu/sane-release >>> >>> It provides the most recent Sane release. Just follow the instructions >>&

Re: [sane-devel] ScanSnap S1100 on Linux Mint

2017-06-22 Thread m. allan noah
On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 7:46 PM, Crusader wrote: > > 3. run 'SANE_DEBUG_EPJITSU=5 scanimage -L' and send the output text to > this list- I want to see what version of sane you are running. > a@a-UL80VT ~ $ SANE_DEBUG_EPJITSU=5 scanimage -L > [sanei_debug] Setting debug

Re: [sane-devel] Add supporting of device to the existing backend

2017-06-22 Thread m. allan noah
The previous maintainer has left some documentation at: https://github.com/stefdev49/syseneg . Perhaps that will help you? allan On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 10:43 AM, Дмитрий Шелонин wrote: > Hello > > I want to add new device based on unsupported controller to the

Re: [sane-devel] Adding a scanner backend (genesys) does not work

2017-06-13 Thread m. allan noah
On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 10:29 AM, Chris Mailer wrote: > I´m currently trying to get a newer usb-scanner to work, which is, > according the documentation, "to be added to genesys backend" > (whatever that means). It means your scanner is not supported, but the genesys

Re: [sane-devel] Error 404

2017-05-25 Thread m. allan noah
Fixed. Thank you for the report. allan On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 9:29 AM, Matthias Erich Popp wrote: > I can't find this Site http://sane-project.org/sane-backends-1.0.25.html > > with best regards from Dortmund Matthias Popp > -- > sane-devel mailing list:

Re: [sane-devel] Hiring a SANE developer for custom backend

2017-05-23 Thread m. allan noah
You are in the right place. Your paste indicates that this is a GL848 or later chipset. It could be supported by the genesys sane backend, which is basically unmaintained currently. However, you might get lucky and be able to entice the former maintainer/author to come out of retirement

[sane-devel] Sane-backends is open for development

2017-05-22 Thread m. allan noah
Sorry for the delay, real life got in the way. But, sane-backends repo is now out of code freeze. Feel free to fix bugs, etc. Note that the version is now 1.0.27git, based on earlier discussions about making packaging easier. Let me know if you see any problems related to the repo or the

[sane-devel] Sane-backends 1.0.27 has been released

2017-05-22 Thread m. allan noah
2017-05-22: SANE-Backends-1.0.27 (see Note 1) has been released: * Significant enhancements to canon_dr, epjitsu, epsonds, fujitsu, genesys, hp3500, pixma and xerox-mfp backends. * Minor updates, bugfixes or scanners added in several backends. * 30+ new scanner models supported. * Made libusb-1.0

Re: [sane-devel] Updated dutch translation

2017-05-19 Thread m. allan noah
Got it, thanks! allan On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 2:34 PM, Martin Kho wrote: > Hi, > > May be a little late, but I hope not too late. In the attachment you'll find > an update to the dutch translation. It completely replaces the current po- > file. B.t.w. the source was taken

Re: [sane-devel] Possible to rename network scanner?

2017-05-19 Thread m. allan noah
The fujitsu backend includes the serial number of the scanner in the device name. The users would have to memorize that number. Anything more would be a code change. The best place to make such a change would probably be in saned itself, so that all backends could benefit. Unfortunately, many

Re: [sane-devel] sane-backends release 1.0.26 schedule

2017-05-19 Thread m. allan noah
de Freeze? > > I would like to commit a bug fix this weekend. > > Rolf > > > Am 28.04.2017 um 14:04 schrieb m. allan noah: >> Ok folks, it's time to get another sane-backends release out the door. >> >> Olaf has done a good job of cleaning up our contributo

Re: [sane-devel] Motor movement and then time-out with Canon LIDE120

2017-05-17 Thread m. allan noah
You are running an older version of sane-backends. Our development snapshots are oddly named, but a recent one would be 1.0.26git. I suspect your problem is fixed there. We have a release in a few days, and it would be nice to verify. Perhaps you can upgrade in the meantime? You might be able to

Re: [sane-devel] Updating backend version info

2017-05-15 Thread m. allan noah
I have never bumped backend version numbers for backends with a maintainer, I leave that to them. Given how few places we show the backend version number, I would not worry about fixing this for any patches you have applied from the bug tracker. allan On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 8:39 AM, Olaf

Re: [sane-devel] Getting ready for sane-backends release

2017-05-14 Thread m. allan noah
On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 7:31 AM, Yuri Chornoivan wrote: > неділя, 14-тра-2017 20:11:03 Olaf Meeuwissen написано: >> Hi Allan, >> >> I just pushed an update of all the autotools and gettext derived files. >> Unless there are any other updates to any of these files, all you need >>

Re: [sane-devel] Fix PPA build

2017-05-12 Thread m. allan noah
this sounds like a reasonable plan to me, though I wonder what effect it will have on the currently installed git-based packages. They are already 1.0.26+git, and they will remain so after this release (though the part will be of a different format). allan On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 7:36

Re: [sane-devel] sane-backends release 1.0.26 schedule

2017-05-06 Thread m. allan noah
te: >> Am 06.05.2017 um 14:27 schrieb m. allan noah: >> > On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 5:52 AM, Louis Lagendijk <lo...@fazant.net> >> > wrote: >> > > On Fri, 2017-04-28 at 08:04 -0400, m. allan noah wrote: >> > > > Ok folks, it's time t

Re: [sane-devel] sane-backends release 1.0.26 schedule

2017-05-06 Thread m. allan noah
On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 5:52 AM, Louis Lagendijk <lo...@fazant.net> wrote: > On Fri, 2017-04-28 at 08:04 -0400, m. allan noah wrote: >> Ok folks, it's time to get another sane-backends release out the >> door. >> >> Olaf has done a good job of cleaning up our

Re: [sane-devel] Is it time of a new release?

2017-05-02 Thread m. allan noah
On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 4:56 PM, Tom Myers wrote: > Do you know if the new release 1.0.26 will be built for macOS Sierra > (10.12)? I would be willing to help a bit on this. I tried to build it with > the latest Xcode and had issues. Not sure if it was me or the code. I am

Re: [sane-devel] pixma backend: -x/y auto advertised but not available / how to crop?

2017-04-28 Thread m. allan noah
That 'auto' string is put there by scanimage, when it finds an option with the SANE_CAP_AUTOMATIC capability set. Unfortunately, scanimage has some special handling for the x/y/t/l parameters. It appears that -l and -t will properly parse the 'auto' string, but -x and -y will not. This is a bug in

Re: [sane-devel] adding a timeout for the scanner lamp

2017-04-28 Thread m. allan noah
does something. That would in theory work with all scanners. allan On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 11:15 AM, Fred 1 <zfre...@gmail.com> wrote: > Mustek BearPaw 2448 TA > > does it matter ? > > so i should be looking at the driver code? > > > > On 29/04/17 01:11, m. allan n

Re: [sane-devel] adding a timeout for the scanner lamp

2017-04-28 Thread m. allan noah
Depends on which scanner you are talking about, which you did not say. allan On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 10:58 AM, Fred 1 wrote: > i'm not quite familiar with the code yet, but say i want to add a timeout > thingy for the scanner lamp, > > normally the lamp turns off when you

Re: [sane-devel] sane-backends release 1.0.26 schedule

2017-04-28 Thread m. allan noah
You can send translations at any time, up to the day of the release. allan On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 10:20 AM, Yuri Chornoivan <yurc...@ukr.net> wrote: > п'ятниця, 28-кві-2017 08:04:55 m. allan noah написано: >> Ok folks, it's time to get another sane-backends release out the door.

Re: [sane-devel] TIFF to PDF at 300dpi?

2017-04-12 Thread m. allan noah
do your tiffs have XResolution and YResolution tags in them before you convert? allan On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 11:05 AM, Manuel Reiter wrote: > Hi all, > > this might be a bit off topic here and if that's against this list's policy, > I apologize in advance, but I've been

Re: [sane-devel] CanoScan 9000F not recognized on Lubuntu

2017-03-31 Thread m. allan noah
What version number of libsane? allan On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 1:57 AM, Jonathan Barés <jonathan.ba...@umontpellier.fr> wrote: > Hi Allan, > > Yes it is libsane. > > Thanks, > > Jonathan > > > > Le 30/03/2017 à 22:24, m. allan noah a écrit : >> >

Re: [sane-standard] CanoScan 9000F not recognized on Lubuntu

2017-03-30 Thread m. allan noah
Sorry, this is the wrong mailing list. Please use sane-devel instead. allan On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 1:17 PM, Jonathan Barés wrote: > Hi all, > > After googling for hours I still do not understand why my CanoScan 9000F > MarkII is not recognized by my Lubuntu

Re: [sane-devel] FUJITSU ScanSnap iX500 - default page format?

2017-03-25 Thread m. allan noah
in the bug with one that is rebased > against current git head today. > > Best > PETer > > Am Montag, 6. März 2017, 10:12:48 CET schrieb m. allan noah: >> Frankly, your front-end program should save your preferences for >> things like page size, so you only set them once

Re: [sane-devel] Is it time of a new release?

2017-03-12 Thread m. allan noah
We were discussing another release recently. We have at least one major networking security bug we need to fix, and there are a few backends which have some outstanding patches yet to commit. I think perhaps at the end of April these things will be ready. If you are able, taking a pass through our

Re: [sane-devel] FUJITSU ScanSnap iX500 - default page format?

2017-03-06 Thread m. allan noah
way to do that. allan On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 9:56 AM, Philipp Huebner <debala...@debian.org> wrote: > Am 06.03.2017 um 15:54 schrieb m. allan noah: >> The fujitsu backend does not have an automatic size option. The page >> and image sizes default to US Letter, which is w

Re: [sane-devel] FUJITSU ScanSnap iX500 - default page format?

2017-03-06 Thread m. allan noah
The fujitsu backend does not have an automatic size option. The page and image sizes default to US Letter, which is wider than A4. Perhaps you are seeing some feature of your frontend program. Which frontend are you using? allan On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 9:32 AM, Philipp Huebner

Re: [sane-devel] fujitsu deskew background artifacts

2017-02-14 Thread m. allan noah
Paul- I'm sorry I missed your earlier email, gmail put it in spam. It was only when Olaf replied that I saw anything about it (thanks Olaf!). Further comments inline... On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 4:39 PM, G. Paul Ziemba wrote: > There seems to be something wrong with the

Re: [sane-devel] Does sane support sanner device Panasonic S1046C?

2017-01-18 Thread m. allan noah
The kvs1025 backend does not list the KV S1046C. It may be possible to add it to the code, and have it work. The sane project has no way of knowing, however, since the author of this backend is not a member of the project. Do you have access to this scanner? We could give you a patch to try, but

Re: [sane-devel] Avision AV210D2+ segfaulting

2017-01-16 Thread m. allan noah
Always start with an upgrade to a current git repo checkout. There has been some work on the avision backend recently, and you might get lucky. allan On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 10:38 AM, skerr wrote: > Hi Wolf, > > Thanks for your response. > > I will be stuck using CentOS7. It

Re: [sane-devel] Help, I pushed mucb more to got then I wanted

2017-01-06 Thread m. allan noah
git revert will add reversing commits to your tree, and you can push them. allan On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 4:28 PM, Louis Lagendijk wrote: > guys, > My sincere apologies: I messed up my last push to git. I did not notice > that I had already commited other changes to my local

Re: [sane-devel] Samsung M2675FN

2016-12-30 Thread m. allan noah
No, it says that those models are unsupported: http://www.sane-project.org/lists/sane-backends-cvs.html#S-XEROX-MFP allan On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 8:00 AM, Manuel Argüelles wrote: > Hello, > > From the development (git) version of sane-backends I can see that >

Re: [sane-devel] Cannot get hp scanjet 8200 working

2016-11-25 Thread m. allan noah
This sounds like the typical linux usb3 problems. If you use a sane-backends git snapshot, the problem may go away. If not, that version also has another option: you can try to invoke your scanning program with an additional env var: SANE_USB_WORKAROUND=1 allan On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 3:57 AM,

Re: [sane-devel] Fujitsu iX500 - No scanners were identified.

2016-11-21 Thread m. allan noah
You did not tell us what you upgraded? Sane-backends, your scanner, your kernel? This sounds like a pretty typical linux usb bug. You might need to install a development version of sane-backends from our git repo. Once you have built and installed a sane-backends git snapshot (using the info in

Re: [sane-devel] scanimage version

2016-11-04 Thread m. allan noah
I'm totally confused- the developers on this list are the authors of the scanimage program you are using. The current version is 1.0.25. But no matter, because I don't think scanimage is the source of your problem. The issue here is with the brother driver, which you got from brother, not from us.

Re: [sane-devel] microtek2 lineart threshold problem

2016-11-03 Thread m. allan noah
Change the order of your command line arguments. put lineart first. On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 2:28 PM, Tom Canavan wrote: > Hello, > I am a new member and this is my first post. I wanted to post here before > filing a bug report to make sure I am not doing something

Re: [sane-devel] A Cooperation Message from Plustek Inc.

2016-11-02 Thread m. allan noah
On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Yury Tarasievich <yury.tarasiev...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 01/11/16 14:37, m. allan noah wrote: >> >> Jenson- The SANE project certainly could accept your code for >> inclusion into our repository, if a few conditions are met. Nam

Re: [sane-devel] A Cooperation Message from Plustek Inc.

2016-11-01 Thread m. allan noah
Jenson- The SANE project certainly could accept your code for inclusion into our repository, if a few conditions are met. Namely: 1. The code must be completely open and suitable for use with our license. No binary or precompiled code, other than possible firmware uploads. 2. The code must use

[sane-devel] Clarification: SANE Developer Status Reconfirmation Request

2016-10-22 Thread m. allan noah
The email below was sent to sane-devel on behalf of the project admins, Gerhard, Olaf, and myself. Our intention is to get a more accurate list of who should still have commit permissions in our git repo, edit permissions in the bug tracker, etc. The intended audience is effectively those listed

Re: [sane-devel] option threshold without effect for fujitsu backend since 1.0.24-1

2016-10-08 Thread m. allan noah
I have just committed a fix in e4aed53a1e46b9d46a76f814d414ef8d2c2276e3. If you are able, I would appreciate if you could test it. allan On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 8:19 PM, m. allan noah <kitno...@gmail.com> wrote: > It looks like commit 96628ed13f411298ee0681e7515745fdf85d1309 is the

Re: [sane-devel] option threshold without effect for fujitsu backend since 1.0.24-1

2016-10-05 Thread m. allan noah
, m. allan noah <kitno...@gmail.com> wrote: > Mickael, thank you for the report. I thought I had fixed this problem > previously, but I am apparently wrong. I will investigate. > > allan > > On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 12:13 PM, PELUARD Mickael > <mickael.pelu...

Re: [sane-devel] option threshold without effect for fujitsu backend since 1.0.24-1

2016-10-04 Thread m. allan noah
Mickael, thank you for the report. I thought I had fixed this problem previously, but I am apparently wrong. I will investigate. allan On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 12:13 PM, PELUARD Mickael wrote: > Hello, > > > > we used Fujitsu scanner (fi-5110 /

Re: [sane-devel] Canon Scanner P-208 II

2016-09-23 Thread m. allan noah
The canon_dr sane backend already has a deskew option. It is a software implementation, as only the most expensive Canon machines have hardware deskew. I might be able to borrow from the canon driver, if it has a compatible license with sane, and the source is truly included. Do you have a link?

Re: [sane-devel] [Janitorial] Zero(!) compiler warnings

2016-09-21 Thread m. allan noah
On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 9:12 AM, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > Hi devs, > > About a year ago, I set out trying to get rid of *all* compiler warnings > on a "well-defined" build platform. I'm happy to report that we've made > it! With the commit of ee550e5d[1], the

Re: [sane-devel] Canoscan Lide 220 not works... :(

2016-09-20 Thread m. allan noah
What version of sane-backends are you running? allan On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 8:46 AM, csola48 wrote: > > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with

Re: [sane-devel] SANE-Backend for Brother PDS-series scanner

2016-09-18 Thread m. allan noah
On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 6:25 AM, Olaf Meeuwissen <paddy-h...@member.fsf.org> wrote: > Hi Allan, > > I just dashed off a rather long explation to James and the list. > > m. allan noah writes: > >> I personally am of the opinion that Brother is in violation of our &g

Re: [sane-devel] "No: command not found" when building sane-backends

2016-09-17 Thread m. allan noah
Hmm, sounds like fig2dev is missing on your machine, and we mistakenly tested for it and let the string 'no' sneak thru when it was not found. Looks like Olaf worked on this in cc8f99b9 allan On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Tristan Miller wrote: > Greetings. > >

Re: [sane-devel] SANE-Backend for Brother PDS-series scanner

2016-09-16 Thread m. allan noah
I personally am of the opinion that Brother is in violation of our license. However, our license is not strictly GPL, and the differences were clearly not written by a lawyer. You could argue that we give some space for a company to steal our work, and keep it from their users. I vote with my

Re: [sane-devel] Search interface for sane-devel archive down?

2016-09-13 Thread m. allan noah
The sane project controls neither of the sites you link to. They are maintained by former project members. I suggest you do a google site search like so: site:https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/ 'your search terms' allan On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 2:50 PM, James A. Robinson

Re: [sane-devel] Testing a Canon imageFormula P-150M

2016-08-14 Thread m. allan noah
The canon machines with the autostart switch have two different usb ids. I know neither of those for the P-150 or P-150M, so neither of them would be in the config file. This makes me wonder if something is wrong with your chronology- I don't think scanimage -L could have found the scanner before

Re: [sane-devel] Fujitsu fi-6240

2016-08-02 Thread m. allan noah
The fi-6240 will work out of the box with any recent version of sane-backends (libsane) and gscan2pdf comes with most Linux distros. However, I don't know of anything that will parse the barcode separation sheets. allan On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 7:58 AM, C Peeters wrote: > I

Re: [sane-devel] Canon Lide scanners stopped working in Ubuntu 16.04

2016-06-21 Thread m. allan noah
Sounds like we have some problem with the genesys backend. Can you compile an older version of sane-backends (perhaps 1.0.24, or whatever version Ubuntu 14.04 used)? If that works, then you can do a git bisect, and find where it breaks. If that does not work, I think we are looking at something

Re: [sane-devel] SANE website on GitLab Pages (was Re: GitLab mirrors, GitLab-CI builds and GitLab Pages)

2016-06-21 Thread m. allan noah
Hmm, recently I have been getting this from the nightly cron /home/groups/sane/bin/update-htdocs.sh chgrp: changing group of `./.git/index': Operation not permitted Is that related to a change you have made here? allan On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 9:23 AM, Olaf Meeuwissen

Re: [sane-devel] Fwd: Canon DR-2580C commands hang with libusb: warning [libusb_code] ...

2016-06-19 Thread m. allan noah
eve the relevant versions are: > > libusb-1.0.19 > libusb-compat-0.1.5 > sane-backends-1.0.24.73-g6c4f6bc > > > 2016-06-18 22:25 GMT+02:00 m. allan noah <kitno...@gmail.com>: >> >> That message implies a kernel or libusb bug. Do you see any errors >> ar

Re: [sane-devel] Burnt out bulb canoscan 110

2016-06-14 Thread m. allan noah
CIS machines don't have separate bulbs, they have a series of tricolor LEDs that are integrated into the optical module. If the LEDs are not lighting, I'd guess you have some other problem. What version of sane-backends are you using? allan On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 10:42 AM, George S.

Re: [sane-devel] Comment about a patch

2016-06-11 Thread m. allan noah
hmm, slowing every call to sanei_usb_write_bulk by every backend, just because some ancient discontinued scanner cannot keep up with modern system speeds? The place to put this hack is in the plustek backend, not the shared usb library. allan On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 12:16 PM, Jörg Frings-Fürst

Re: [sane-devel] Difficulty with HP 5300C in Ubuntu - sane_start: error during device I/O

2016-06-07 Thread m. allan noah
sane-backends 1.0.23 is pretty old. it is possible a later version of sane-backends might help. allan On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 6:42 PM, Jon wrote: > Hello, > > I've been trying to use my HP 5300C to scan documents in Ubuntu. In the > past, I had an older HP scanner working

Re: [sane-devel] xsane root only

2016-05-08 Thread m. allan noah
You need to set the permissions of the device file when it is created by the OS. Different distros handle this in different ways, so I cannot give you any Mint specific instructions. Generally, you will look for udev or hal rules or hwdb files, and modify them. My distro sets up permissions for

Re: [sane-devel] Need sane docs

2016-05-05 Thread m. allan noah
Xsane has no networking code in it. Everything you have described so far sounds like a problem in the brother4 backend. I suggest you try the same test using scanimage at the command line, and if it is still slow, compare to the windows driver. If you see a difference, ask Brother about brother4.

Re: [sane-devel] Need sane docs

2016-05-04 Thread m. allan noah
debugging options for the brother4 backend. Without more debugging info from that backend, you are stuck. allan On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 11:58 PM, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > On Tuesday 03 May 2016 20:52:35 m. allan noah wrote: > >> Well, that implies that we a

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