Re: [sane-devel] DocketPORT 487 - Making loud noises

2023-02-09 Thread Mike Hansen
I am head of development at Ambir, the manufacturer of this scanner. That model has been out of production for over a decade. It’s likely the unit is EOL and that clicking you are hearing is coming from the motor. There are no belts, only gears in the unit and sure it’s possible the gears

Re: [sane-devel] DocketPORT 487 - Making loud noises

2023-02-09 Thread Ralph Little
Hi, On Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 11:52 AM Miss Tori wrote: > > I'll try wine or run a vm. I will then try to locate a windows machine if > those two options don't pan out. > > The last time I tried to use it, it worked. That was Sept 2016. > scanimage -V > scanimage (sane-backends) 1.1.1-debian;

Re: [sane-devel] DocketPORT 487 - Making loud noises

2023-02-09 Thread Miss Tori
On 2/9/23 14:37, Ralph Little wrote: Hi, On Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 11:34 AM Miss Tori wrote: On 2/9/23 14:12, Ralph Little wrote: Hi, On Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 11:07 AM Miss Tori wrote: Update to my mailing below (I deleted it before it was approved to the

Re: [sane-devel] DocketPORT 487 - Making loud noises

2023-02-09 Thread Ralph Little
Hi, On Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 11:34 AM Miss Tori wrote: > > On 2/9/23 14:12, Ralph Little wrote: > > Hi, > > On Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 11:07 AM Miss Tori wrote: > >> Update to my mailing below (I deleted it before it was approved to the >> list) >> It definitely has to do with what's going on

Re: [sane-devel] DocketPORT 487 - Making loud noises

2023-02-09 Thread Miss Tori
On 2/9/23 14:12, Ralph Little wrote: Hi, On Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 11:07 AM Miss Tori wrote: Update to my mailing below (I deleted it before it was approved to the list) It definitely has to do with what's going on during the sane_read API function. If I issue

Re: [sane-devel] DocketPORT 487 - Making loud noises

2023-02-09 Thread Miss Tori
FYI: The last time I tried to use it was Sept of 2016. It functioned on this debian linux machine at that time using SANE. On 2/9/23 14:24, Mike Hansen wrote: I am head of development at Ambir, the manufacturer of this scanner.  That model has been out of production for over a decade.   It’s

Re: [sane-devel] DocketPORT 487 - Making loud noises

2023-02-09 Thread Ralph Little
Hi, On Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 11:24 AM Mike Hansen wrote: > I am head of development at Ambir, the manufacturer of this scanner. That > model has been out of production for over a decade. It’s likely the unit > is EOL and that clicking you are hearing is coming from the motor. There > are no

Re: [sane-devel] Library functions in backend

2023-02-09 Thread Ralph Little
Hi, On Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 11:11 AM m. allan noah wrote: > Frontends or backends? Either way, I am not opposed to abandoning quirks > for ancient platforms. > > In this case the suggestion is for backends. I agree that flushing out ancient code is a good thing in general. I only worry that SANE

Re: [sane-devel] DocketPORT 487 - Making loud noises

2023-02-09 Thread Ralph Little
Hi, On Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 11:07 AM Miss Tori wrote: > Update to my mailing below (I deleted it before it was approved to the > list) > It definitely has to do with what's going on during the sane_read API > function. > > If I issue scanimage -T, it will start clicking instantly > There

Re: [sane-devel] Library functions in backend

2023-02-09 Thread m. allan noah
Frontends or backends? Either way, I am not opposed to abandoning quirks for ancient platforms. On Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 12:29 PM Ralph Little wrote: > There has been a proposal to remove the library replacement functions from > the backend repo. >

[sane-devel] DocketPORT 487 - Making loud noises

2023-02-09 Thread Miss Tori
Update to my mailing below (I deleted it before it was approved to the list) It definitely has to do with what's going on during the sane_read API function. If I issue scanimage -T,  it will start clicking instantly # scanimage --output-file=scan.jpg -vv [13:50:58.250725] [genesys]

[sane-devel] Library functions in backend

2023-02-09 Thread Ralph Little
There has been a proposal to remove the library replacement functions from the backend repo. https://gitlab.com/sane-project/frontends/-/merge_requests/11 On the surface, this seems sensible. I can't see that there are many if any platforms that the backends repo is built on that wouldn't have