Re: [sane-devel] License pop-up

2019-09-17 Thread Ralph Little
Hi, On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 2:28 PM Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > > No matter who's to "blame", Oliver, while still the author of (almost) > all the code, is no longer maintaining XSane. The SANE Project has > taken over (with Oliver's "blessing") and now continues the maintenance > of XSane. As su

Re: [sane-devel] License pop-up

2019-09-17 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Hi Ralph, Ralph Little writes: > Hi, > Regarding my previous posting on this, I found the original, at times > heated, discussion at Debian: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=132679 Read it, as well as the follow-up on your original mail until I replied. The bug report ended

Re: [sane-devel] Canon Lide 220 not working over 1200dpi

2019-09-17 Thread Ralph Little
Hi, On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 10:43 AM Jeroen Van den Keybus < jeroen.vandenkey...@gmail.com> wrote: > > If you want to buy this for driver development, these specs are probably > less relevant. > > Yes, that is my thought. I don't mind picking up cheap kit for dev work, although my wife might disa

Re: [sane-devel] Canon Lide 220 not working over 1200dpi

2019-09-17 Thread Jeroen Van den Keybus
Ralph, The LiDE220 is decent for me, but you must restrict yourself to 1200 dpi or less. Scan speeds and .pnm file sizes for A4 are shown below. Done with scanimage. A good workaround for the bad gray scale scan is to scan in 24-bit color and convert it to grayscale on the PC. Theoretically give

Re: [sane-devel] Canon TR4529 (PIXMA TR4500 Series)

2019-09-17 Thread Jean-Marc Spaggiari
Oh, I found the files: https://launchpad.net/~rolfbensch/+archive/ubuntu/sane-git/+files/libsane1_1.0.28+git20190913-eoan0_arm64.deb Ok. Thanks all. I will try to install this version and report if scan is working fine with it. JMS Le mar. 17 sept. 2019 à 13:40, Jean-Marc Spaggiari a écrit : >

Re: [sane-devel] Canon TR4529 (PIXMA TR4500 Series)

2019-09-17 Thread Jean-Marc Spaggiari
Hi Olaf, Thanks for following up. I tried to add the PPA but failed: FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type: 'S.gpg-agent.extra' (No such file or directory) I'm running straight Debian. They seems to recommend not doing it: https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian#Don.27

Re: [sane-devel] Canon TR4529 (PIXMA TR4500 Series)

2019-09-17 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Hi Jean-Marc, Jean-Marc Spaggiari writes: > Hi Rolf, > > I'm running straight Debian and it seems that availble version is 1.0.27. > The Ubuntu link you sent shows 1.0.28. I searched on Debian Packaged and > they don't seems to have something more recent :-/ 1.0.28 is the most recent released ve

Re: [sane-devel] Canon Lide 220 not working over 1200dpi

2019-09-17 Thread Jeroen Van den Keybus
Povilas, As I understand it, that code has never been changed over the last years. Most probably these features have never worked. I tried going back as far as I could, and the issues remained. That is not bitrot. It is possible that a different chip worked fine, and that it was assumed that thi

Re: [sane-devel] Canon Lide 220 not working over 1200dpi

2019-09-17 Thread Ralph Little
Hi, On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 8:36 AM Povilas Kanapickas wrote: > It could be that the code has bitrot since it was written as there were > no tests. I noticed that many scanners didn't live up to the > expectations set in the "supported scanners" web page. > > Someone on craigslist here has one o

Re: [sane-devel] Canon Lide 220 not working over 1200dpi

2019-09-17 Thread Povilas Kanapickas
It could be that the code has bitrot since it was written as there were no tests. I noticed that many scanners didn't live up to the expectations set in the "supported scanners" web page. Povilas On 9/15/19 11:24 AM, mfoolb bloofm wrote: > That is actually a bit frustrating considering I chose th