[sane-devel] HP5370c and sane

2002-10-03 Thread Willem de Wilde
Hi, Does not work yet. I have the same scanner :( Keep a close watch on this list though, Rene Rebe is the developer and is working hard, if you want to be a tester, check Rene Rebe. (Search this list) Its hard work, but maybe you get your printer working !! Willem > > I'm trying to make the HP537

[sane-devel] Epson Perfection 1660 photo -> Driver(s)

2002-10-03 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, [CCed to sane-devel] On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 11:55:56AM +1200, John Williams wrote: > I can now get this scanner to function by becoming Root, changing to /sbin > and running "modprobe scanner vendor=0x048b product=0x011e". > Then the error message does not appear, the scanner scans documen

[sane-devel] where to put firmware files?

2002-10-03 Thread Oliver Rauch
Matto Marjanovic schrieb: > > >> Currently I'm using /usr/local/lib/sane as the default directory for > >> these files as they are binary objects. But as they are > >> platform-independent, shouldn't be the default path for such files > >> SANE_DATA_DIR "/sane" (by default "/usr/local/share/sa

[sane-devel] HP Scanjet 5100c

2002-10-03 Thread Al Mos
Hi, I am a somewhat of a newbie to Linux (about 6 months) and have been trying to get Mandrake 8.2 to recognize my HP Scanjet 5100c scanner. I have gone to Control Center and selected my scanner from the list provided. Then I get the message that it is configured and I can run it from Start/M

[sane-devel] Epson Perfection 1660 photo -> Driver(s)

2002-10-03 Thread k...@khk.net
> Hi, > > [CCed to sane-devel] > > On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 11:55:56AM +1200, John Williams wrote: >> I can now get this scanner to function by becoming Root, changing to >> /sbin and running "modprobe scanner vendor=0x048b product=0x011e". >> Then the error message does not appear, the scanner sca

[sane-devel] USB scanners page.

2002-10-03 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 09:45:28PM -0500, Frank Zago wrote: > For big endian machine (eg PPC), a linux kernel 2.4.20 will be necessary to > work with the Umax Astra 2200. > This is also true for any scanner using control messages. Oops. Is this a problem with the scanner module or low level

[sane-devel] USB scanners page.

2002-10-03 Thread Frank Zago
Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 09:45:28PM -0500, Frank Zago wrote: > >>For big endian machine (eg PPC), a linux kernel 2.4.20 will be necessary to >>work with the Umax Astra 2200. >>This is also true for any scanner using control messages. > > > Oops. Is this a

[sane-devel] New Epson Scanners

2002-10-03 Thread Till Kamppeter
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --08060004080602050907 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sorry, for the delay, our release and the www.linux-kongress.de needed to much time. But now I tested the Epson Perfection

[sane-devel] New Epson Scanners

2002-10-03 Thread
> modprobe scanner vendor=0x04b8 product=0x011d - Hi, How do you know these numbers : vendor=0x04b8 product=0x011d ? thanks Antoine Waché

[sane-devel] Permission denied on parallel port Epson Expression636

2002-10-03 Thread Petr Hlustik
Hello, I got my hands on the Epson Expression636 which comes with both SCSI and parallel ports. W/o SCSI on my RedHat8 box, I tried the parallel port. Scanning works if I'm root (Yes!!) but not as a regular user. This my diagnostics: SANE_DEBUG_EPSON=9 scanimage -d epson:0x378 > pnm.out [sanei_d

[sane-devel] Permission denied on parallel port Epson Expression636

2002-10-03 Thread Greg Weeks
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Petr Hlustik wrote: > Hello, > > I got my hands on the Epson Expression636 which comes with both SCSI and > parallel ports. W/o SCSI on my RedHat8 box, I tried the parallel > port. Scanning works if I'm root (Yes!!) but not as a regular user. This my I noticed this too. I'm as

[sane-devel] Permission denied on parallel port Epson Expression636

2002-10-03 Thread k...@khk.net
This is a limitation all parallel port scanners have when used with Sane. You already know the reason for this: Sane uses the IO ports and not the device file to talk to the scanner. As long as you trust everybody who's using your computer, you can just make the frontend(s) you are using setuid ro

[sane-devel] Permission denied on parallel port Epson Expression636

2002-10-03 Thread Petr Hlustik
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 02:29:04PM -0400, k...@khk.net wrote: > This is a limitation all parallel port scanners have when used with Sane. > You already know the reason for this: Sane uses the IO ports and not > the device file to talk to the scanner. > > As long as you trust everybody who's using

[sane-devel] Permission denied on parallel port Epson Expression636

2002-10-03 Thread Petr Hlustik
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 02:29:04PM -0400, k...@khk.net wrote: > This is a limitation all parallel port scanners have when used with Sane. > You already know the reason for this: Sane uses the IO ports and not > the device file to talk to the scanner. > > As long as you trust everybody who's using

[sane-devel] Permission denied on parallel port Epson Expression636

2002-10-03 Thread Greg Weeks
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Petr Hlustik wrote: > I guess I'm back to either scanimage or su to root, with no Gimp > integration. Sigh. I used saned not suid but ran as root from inetd. This isn't the fastest, but it worked ok for me. -- Greg Weeks http://durendal.org/greg/

[sane-devel] Permission denied on parallel port Epson Expression636

2002-10-03 Thread Petr Hlustik
Hello Greg et al., I'm afraid I'm back with another problem. I tried to run the scanner as UID 0 again and got this new error: scanimage --list-devices [epson] Unknown type or level B, using B3 device `epson:0x378' is a Epson flatbed scanner default device is `epson:0x378' plus the scanner is

[sane-devel] Permission denied on parallel port Epson Expression636

2002-10-03 Thread Greg Weeks
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Petr Hlustik wrote: > [epson] sane_init, >pio 0x378< > [epson] sane_init, >pio 0x378< A question. Why is this in there twice? I don't think this is your problem, but it looks like it's trying to attach twicw. -- Greg Weeks http://durendal.org/greg/

[sane-devel] Several comments on Canon N670U support

2002-10-03 Thread kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu
I have now tested sane-1.08 with plustek-sane-0_44_2 on my Canoscan N670U. Compilation was routine and fast. I did have to edit the configutation file in /etc/sane.d to point at /dev/usb/scanner0, because I am using devfs and there is no such device here as /dev/usbscanner. But after this it does f