[sane-devel] Re: Affordable film scanner supported by SANE

2003-03-19 Thread James Beard
> > Just an idea -- since this is bound to become an issue with more than > > just the Coolscan2 backend, how about adding a "preference memory" > > feature to xsane? You could save multiple sets of settings for the > > same backend and recall them any time. This way you could set up one > > for ea

[sane-devel] Erratic connection of frontends to scanner

2003-03-19 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi > I'm still not sure why this problem seemed to correct itself - it > started straight after I loaded the new firmware file, but > dissappeared suddenly, only to reappear two days later! The backend will perform the firmware upload only when needed. If the firmware was already downloaded (e.g

[sane-devel] Re: Affordable film scanner supported by SANE

2003-03-19 Thread Major A
> Can you give some details what has to be done for that? Are changes > necessary for the backends, frontends and/or the API? I don't think much has been done yet. I don't think we need to change any backends (the only thing would be if backends wanted to supply their own ICC profiles, for which a

[sane-devel] Spot Dynotak 6p

2003-03-19 Thread Frank Zago
Spot's been long dead. AFAIK there is no sane driver, not even a started one, and very little chance to see one one day. Frank. Libbi wrote: > Hi, > > the list of the supported scanners doesn't contain "Spot Dynotak 6p". > There doesnt exist any win xp-dirver, so i hoped to get it working usin

[sane-devel] compiling newer kernel with support for HP ScanJet 4c

2003-03-19 Thread Peter Kirchgessner
Hi, Depending on which card you have, you need different kernel modules: Symbios Logic 53C400 A: driver g_NCR5380 Symbios Logic 53C416: driver sym53c416 Symbios Logic 53C8xx: driver ncr53c8xx All can be found in /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi. Sincerely Peter Dr. Jones schrieb: > I am compiling

[sane-devel] ScanJet 3200C

2003-03-19 Thread stef
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 10:09:00AM -0300, Alejandro Noli wrote: > Hi, > > I have installed the backend, but it works with umax_pp -p -t 1 and do not > with scanimage -L. > > Where is the problem? I couldn't change the parport0/base-addr number to > hex. I mean, the 888 is unchangeable !! Why

[sane-devel] Re: Affordable film scanner supported by SANE

2003-03-19 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 04:01:32PM +, Major A wrote: > Maybe it's finally time to add ICC support to a SANE? Can you give some details what has to be done for that? Are changes necessary for the backends, frontends and/or the API? Bye, Henning

[sane-devel] Re: Affordable film scanner supported by SANE

2003-03-19 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 12:32:06AM +, Major A wrote: > Then we would have to add focusing and exposure options to the SANE > standard as well-known options because they are vital for film > scanning. Both are already on the TODO for SANE2. As I don't have a film scanner, it's up to you (o

[sane-devel] Re: Upgrade question

2003-03-19 Thread T. Ribbrock
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 12:33:13AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: [...] > # rpm -ivh /home/satimis/Download/Sane/i586/sane-backends-1.0.11-1.i586.rpm > Preparing...### > [100%] >1:sane-backends

[sane-devel] sane-find-scanner no longer finds scanner

2003-03-19 Thread Charles Mims
I am try to use a Canon Lide30 scanner(USB) with Linux RH8.0. Evidently a rebranded Plustek I first checked with 'lsusb' and the scanner is recognized. I then loaded the scanner module and then ran 'sane-find-scanner and it reported the scanner at /dev/usb/scanner0. However when I started Xsan

[sane-devel] Re: Affordable film scanner supported by SANE

2003-03-19 Thread Major A
> According to various readings, every scanner has a different CLUT[*]. > Every film needs also a different CLUT. > > http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=000QOR > http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=000E8u Before we start creating custom LUTs for each scanner-fi

[sane-devel] Re: Affordable film scanner supported by SANE

2003-03-19 Thread Hubert Figuiere
On mercredi, mars 19, 2003, at 12:03 Europe/Paris, James Beard wrote: > What is the main information that Vuescan uses to allow it to produce > such good results? I haven't had much of a chance to experiment, but > the most obvious user defined settings were: > > 1. scanner model > 2. film type >

[sane-devel] Re: Affordable film scanner supported by SANE

2003-03-19 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
hfigui...@teaser.fr said: > You would have me as a tester. Not sure about contributing as I'd not > h ave enough spare time. Anyway if you want to think cross-platform, > I'd be happy to help on that... I am not offering to write it, just pointing out what to me is the obvious. Slide and nega

[sane-devel] Erratic connection of frontends to scanner

2003-03-19 Thread Alisdair
Thanks David, I found the posting by Mark Plowman and followed his advice. A 'belt and braces approach' perhaps, but I've got work to do! Cheers, Alisdair David Wilson wrote: > Another possibility that I thought I would mention. A few days ago on the > list I saw a note about a PAM program

[sane-devel] ScanJet 3200C

2003-03-19 Thread Alejandro Noli
Hi, I have installed the backend, but it works with umax_pp -p -t 1 and do not with scanimage -L. Where is the problem? I couldn't change the parport0/base-addr number to hex. I mean, the 888 is unchangeable !! Why is that? Because the permissions? Thanks, and accept my apologizes if this

[sane-devel] Re: Affordable film scanner supported by SANE

2003-03-19 Thread Jose Paulo Moitinho de Almeida
On Wednesday 19 March 2003 00:32, Major A wrote: >... > > Then we would have to add focusing and exposure options to the SANE > standard as well-known options because they are vital for film > scanning. > I think this is a critical point to make things move. ZP

[sane-devel] Re: Upgrade question

2003-03-19 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Thomas, T. Ribbrock wrote: > - snip - > Did you by any chance upgrade this system from RHL7.1? 'cause RHL7.1 > came with sane-1.0.3... Sorry, I could not recall exactly. I have used this PC for some times > - Remove the "known" old sane related packages: > > rpm -e sane-backends sa

[sane-devel] Re: Affordable film scanner supported by SANE

2003-03-19 Thread Hubert Figuiere
Jonathan Buzzard écrit: > Here is a better idea. How about a SANE front end dedicated to scanning > slides and negatives. As another idea it could be closely modelled on > VueScan. At the end of the day that is what is required. > You would have me as a tester. Not sure about contributing as I

[sane-devel] Erratic connection of frontends to scanner

2003-03-19 Thread Alisdair
Oliver, I think you may have cracked it. Snape20.bin permissions were "-rw--- 1 root". I went "chmod o+rx-w Snape20.bin" so they are now "-rwr-x". Xsane was immediately able to shake hands with the scanner from a user desktop. I'm still not sure why this problem seemed to correct itself -

[sane-devel] Erratic connection of frontends to scanner

2003-03-19 Thread Alisdair
Henning, Thanks for your help. I think Oliver has spotted the problem - inadequate permissions on the firmware file. But I still can't understand why, after refusing to work initially everything then came right for a day or so, only to then go back to failing to work! Cheers, and thanks again

[sane-devel] Re: Affordable film scanner supported by SANE

2003-03-19 Thread Ulrich Deiters
If the backend provides focus control, the frontends make it available to the user. For some film scanners focus control is already supported by the SANE programs. Regards, Ulrich Deiters

[sane-devel] Upgrade question

2003-03-19 Thread Frank
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 00:27, Stephen Liu wrote: " Hi Frank, " " Thanks for your advice. " " Frank wrote: " > - snip - " " " > " Now I have following packages downloaded from ftp.redhat.com " > " " > " sane-backends-1.0.11-1.i586.rpm " > " sane-backends-devel-1.0.11-1.i586.rpm " > " sane-frontends-1.0

[sane-devel] Re: Upgrade question

2003-03-19 Thread T. Ribbrock
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 09:51:11AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > > - Remove the "known" old sane related packages: [...] > # rpm -e sane-backends > error: removing these packages would break dependencies: > sane-backends is needed by libkscan-3.0.0-5 > sane-backends is needed by kooka

[sane-devel] Mustek 1200CP apparently skipping lines

2003-03-19 Thread Pigeon
On 2003.03.17 21:42 Eddy De Greef wrote: > On 2003.03.14 21:25 Pigeon wrote: > > I have a Mustek 1200CP scanner and the latest versions of sane: > > [...] > > It appears that the scanner carriage is advancing two steps when the > > software thinks it has only advanced one step. Scanning anything >

[sane-devel] Re: Affordable film scanner supported by SANE

2003-03-19 Thread Major A
> >Here is a better idea. How about a SANE front end dedicated to scanning > >slides and negatives. As another idea it could be closely modelled on > >VueScan. At the end of the day that is what is required. > > > >JAB. > > This would be very welcome, and I encourage this. > However I shouldn't sp

[sane-devel] Re: Upgrade question

2003-03-19 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Thomas, RH7.3 Thanks for your response. Sorry, I am equally surprized. This is the same system I started to post As USER $ whereis sane sane: /etc/sane.d /usr/lib/sane /usr/include/sane /usr/share/sane /usr/share/man/man7/sane.7.gz $ rpm -qa | grep sane sane-backends-1.0.7-6 sane-fronten

[sane-devel] HP 3570c scanner - No Backend?

2003-03-19 Thread Damien Solley
Hi All I have recently received a HP 3570c scanner as a birthday present. Unfortunately, I've discovered that SANE doesn't have a backend for it. Is anyone aware of development of a driver for it (or even for the HP 3500)? If not, can someone point me towards info on getting it done myself? As thi