[sane-devel] SANE2 standard revisited: message callback

2002-12-06 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, Now the new function for a message callback. I'm citing the SANE2 TODO: http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/sane2/sane2-api-todo | !- let backend display a frontend-info or -selection (ok/cancel) |dialog-box (e.g. "Calibration in progress: wait 10/9/8/... seconds") Are there any other uses

[sane-devel] hp-backend, Error during device I/O, Workaround

2002-12-06 Thread Peter Kirchgessner
Hi, a new hp-backend V1.01 has been released. It is available in CVS and at http://www.kirchgessner.net . It adds a workaround for the problems with Buslogic SCSI cards which give an "Error during device I/O" during startup. A new option option dumb-read is supported in hp.conf. Without the op

[sane-devel] Looking for docs. Net sane?

2002-12-06 Thread David Hostetler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have heard that you can set up SANE on a Linux / BSD / Solaris box and share it to any of the machines on a network. I am looking for docs on how to do this, and how to be able to access it from Windows, and Linux clients. I have one scanner and t

[sane-devel] make problem on darwin with latest cvs

2002-12-06 Thread Peter O'Gorman
On Friday, December 6, 2002, at 10:04 PM, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 12:45:15PM +0100, Beat Birkhofer wrote: >> In the last few weeks I built the sane-backens several times >> successful from cvs. But today it doesn't work. >> >> ./configure is OK, no errors, b

[sane-devel] SANE V2

2002-12-06 Thread Dave Close
"Matthew Duggan" wrote: >> SANE_String_Const sane_verbose_error(Sane_Handle h) >I like this, and it's pretty much what I was looking for. I only have >one criticism from a backend writing point of view: What happens if the >only return has been SANE_STATUS_GOOD? Maybe just: >- >This function

[sane-devel] SANE2 standard revisited: Well-Known Options

2002-12-06 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 06:09:57PM +0100, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/sane2/ |4.5.2 Scan Resolution Options http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/sane2/0.07/doc014.html#s4.5.2 | Option resolution is used to select the resolution at which an image | should be ac

[sane-devel] Plustek backend: incorrect rounding

2002-12-06 Thread Aurelien Jarno
--KsGdsel6WgEHnImy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello ! I am forwarding the following bug reported via the Debian BTS: | In backend/plustek-usbimg.c, line 1363: | | if(!(a_bRegs[0x4e] =3D (u_char)ceil(dw / (

[sane-devel] SANE2 standard revisited: i18n

2002-12-06 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 07:33:41PM +0300, Sergey Vlasov wrote: > On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 22:57:22 +0100 > Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > > > So first, a technical question: can we assume that the GNU gettext > > generated .gmo files are the same on every platform? So transferring > > over the net

[sane-devel] SANE2 standard revisited: Code flow

2002-12-06 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 06:09:57PM +0100, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/sane2/ Now the code flow: | 4.4 Code Flow http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/sane2/0.07/doc013.html#s4.4 Just a general comment: This is one of the most important parts of the SANE standa

[sane-devel] SANE2 standard revisited: sane_get_select_fd

2002-12-06 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 06:09:57PM +0100, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/sane2/ | 4.3.13 sane_get_select_fd http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/sane2/0.07/doc012.html#s4.3.13 This function has caused a lot of trouble and misunderstandings. Or to be more exact: n

[sane-devel] SANE2 standard revisited: i18n

2002-12-06 Thread Sergey Vlasov
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 22:57:22 +0100 Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > So first, a technical question: can we assume that the GNU gettext > generated .gmo files are the same on every platform? So transferring > over the net from a completely different computer works? Otherwise we > can't use them for t

[sane-devel] SANE2 standard revisited: option descriptors and sane_control_option

2002-12-06 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 06:09:57PM +0100, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/sane2/ Now for the option dexcriptors and sane_control_option: | 4.2.9.7 Option Capabilities http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/sane2/0.07/doc011.html#s4.2.9.7 SANE_CAP_ADVANCED 64 | If set,

[sane-devel] yet another make problem on darwin (in abaton)

2002-12-06 Thread Beat Birkhofer
Hi Thank you for the super-fast fix of getenv() problem. Now the compilation stops somewhere later : ... gcc -bundle -flat_namespace -undefined suppress -o .libs/libsane-abaton.1.0.9.so abaton.lo abaton-s.lo sane_strstatus.lo ../sanei/sanei_init_debug.lo ../sanei/sanei_config.lo ../lib/isfdt

[sane-devel] SANE2 standard revisited: image data format

2002-12-06 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 10:10:18PM +0100, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > | 4.3.8 sane_get_parameters > http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/sane2/0.07/doc012.html#s4.3.8 Two additional comments: No return status is defined for sane_get_parameters. All the other functions define what can be retu

[sane-devel] SANE V2

2002-12-06 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 10:00:12AM +1100, Matthew Duggan wrote: > Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > > > In my view sane_strstatus() is a sanei_ rather than a sane_ > function. > > > > It's an interface between the frontend and the backend. The frontend > > asks the backend about the textual mean

[sane-devel] Re: NetBSD pkgsrc - SANE 1.0.8 + Relisys AVEC II S3 v1.07 / TECO VM3564

2002-12-06 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 17:33, Gerard Klaver wrote: > Brian A. Seklecki wrote: > > > http://www.mostang.com/pipermail/sane-devel/2002-November/005107.html > > > > which linked to: > > > > http://gkall.hobby.nl/notes2.html > > > > which indicated that support is in the works for teco2 or teco3

[sane-devel] make problem on darwin with latest cvs

2002-12-06 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 10:08:15PM +0900, Peter O'Gorman wrote: > Hi, just looking at this, there is a -module flag in LDFLAGS caused by > the changes... > This should fix it: > --- acinclude.m42002/12/04 17:48:05 1.33 > +++ acinclude.m42002/12/06 13:07:36 > @@ -138,7 +138

[sane-devel] make problem on darwin with latest cvs

2002-12-06 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 12:45:15PM +0100, Beat Birkhofer wrote: > In the last few weeks I built the sane-backens several times > successful from cvs. But today it doesn't work. > > ./configure is OK, no errors, but make dies very fast: I changed configure.in quite heavily, so this may be th

[sane-devel] make problem on darwin with latest cvs

2002-12-06 Thread Beat Birkhofer
Hi In the last few weeks I built the sane-backens several times successful from cvs. But today it doesn't work. ./configure is OK, no errors, but make dies very fast: [localhost:sane-cvs/sane/sane-backends] bhb% make making all in include make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'. making all in lib

[sane-devel] SANE V2

2002-12-06 Thread Enno Fennema
Thanks for reply on 1. I have no very strong feelings on points 3) to 5) but have to come back on 2). A few years ago James W. McAllister, a Scottish philosopher at the time working at Leiden University, wrote a book called "Beauty and Revolution in Science". He noted that scientists in choosing b

[sane-devel] SANE V2

2002-12-06 Thread Matthew Duggan
Hi, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > > In my view sane_strstatus() is a sanei_ rather than a sane_ function. > > It's an interface between the frontend and the backend. The frontend > asks the backend about the textual meaning of an error. > The function is also used in the backends but the idea is

[sane-devel] About GT6801 CCD scanner

2002-12-06 Thread Fan Dan
Hai , Henning I have done some modify in GT68xx-backend. But I am not sure that modify. When I make scanner work OK. I will tell the modify to you. my compute is i386 and RH8.0( 2.4.19 kernle) . Thanks a lot Byte Dan _

[sane-devel] hp scanner

2002-12-06 Thread Phil Workman
Hi Thankyou in advance details of problem/computer p133 running redhat 7.3 -kernel 2.4.18-3 pci scsi card buslogic bt930 scanner hp scanjet IIcx (ca2500A) scanner is detected on startup /var/log/dmesg subsystem driver Revision: 1.00: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno

[sane-devel] SANE2 standard revisited: image data format

2002-12-06 Thread Michael Herder
Henning Meier-Geinitz, Donnerstag, 5. Dezember 2002 22:10: ... > | # SANE_PFLAG_MORE_IMAGES (bit 1, bitvalue 2) is set to 1 to indicate > | further pending images. It is permissible to set that value to 1 "in > | good faith", as it has to be determined at a very early time, where it > | might not b

[sane-devel] Help getting my scanner recognized

2002-12-06 Thread Peter Kirchgessner
Hi, you can find some general help for configuring a HP SCSI card or some general help for SCSI on http://www.kirchgessner.net/sanehpfaq.html --Peter Bonez schrieb: > I recently downloaded the src files and compiled them for my 2.4.2 caldera > system. I have an HP ScanJet 4C attached to my sys

[sane-devel] XSane preview crashes under FreeBSD

2002-12-06 Thread Alex Teslik
Hi Oliver, I am using 0.87. Unfortunately there is no FreeBSD port for 0.89 or 0.88 and I don't have enough time to do a source build without the port patches. I emailed the maintainer of the port, but he is very busy right now with exams, so I might do the port if I have enough time during this p

[sane-devel] SCSI autodetection on non-Linux systems?

2002-12-06 Thread
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 20:32:59 +0100, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: Hi, >But there is already a line "scsi SCANNER" in mustek.conf. >You mean it can't cope with multiple lines? Ouch sorry, I never tested with default mustek.conf from etc/sane.d It _can_ cope with multiple lines. So autodetection