[sane-devel] sane frontend questions

2004-01-12 Thread Andy Mitofsky
I recently got an epson scanner, and I'm trying to get a sane frontend to work with it. I'm running Mandrake 9.0, gcc3.2, and I've installed sane-backends-1.0.12 from the tarball. I had some trouble installing gtk, but I eventually was able to get it to install from the tar file. I've tried both

[sane-devel] HP Scanjet 3690 support

2004-01-12 Thread Lone Directory
--- Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > > > If it is not yet upported is there anything I can > do > > to analize it and (with your help) create a > specific > > configuration for it? (please note that I'm not a > > C/C++ programmer) > > Have a look at this page: > http://www.sane-project.org/contrib

[sane-devel] UMAX backend with sanei_thread, Mac OS-X users please try, OS/2 users please try!

2004-01-12 Thread Oliver Rauch
Hello. I just replaced the fork() calls by sanei_thread_*() calls for the sane-u= max=20 backend. I tested it wirk fork() and threads on linux. This version is in= the=20 sane cvs now. Please could some Mac OS-X and OS/2 users test this version! Best regards Oliver --=20 http://www.xsane.org h

[sane-devel] Q: threads and pipes

2004-01-12 Thread Oliver Rauch
On Monday 12 January 2004 20:00, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 07:42:42PM +0100, Oliver Rauch wrote: > > Does anyone know how pipes have to be handled with threads?! > > > > when fork() is used then I close the read end in the reader_process a= nd > > the write end

[sane-devel] sanei_thread: pthread test on linux possible?

2004-01-12 Thread Oliver Rauch
On Monday 12 January 2004 19:47, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 07:34:27PM +0100, Oliver Rauch wrote: > > In the umax backend (forked reader process) I used a > > signal handler that catches sigkill and calls > > sanei_scsi_req_flush_all(); > > when the reader_proces

[sane-devel] Q: threads and pipes

2004-01-12 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 07:42:42PM +0100, Oliver Rauch wrote: > Does anyone know how pipes have to be handled with threads?! > > when fork() is used then I close the read end in the reader_process and the > write end in the main process. Should I also do this when working with > threads or s

[sane-devel] sanei_thread: pthread test on linux possible?

2004-01-12 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 07:34:27PM +0100, Oliver Rauch wrote: > In the umax backend (forked reader process) I used a > signal handler that catches sigkill and calls > sanei_scsi_req_flush_all(); > when the reader_process is killed. I am not sure if this > is necessary but I think I did not ad

[sane-devel] Q: threads and pipes

2004-01-12 Thread Oliver Rauch
Hello. Does anyone know how pipes have to be handled with threads?! when fork() is used then I close the read end in the reader_process and t= he write end in the main process. Should I also do this when working with threads or should I keep both ends opened ind both treads? Oliver --=20 http:/

[sane-devel] sanei_thread: pthread test on linux possible?

2004-01-12 Thread Oliver Rauch
Hello Henning > ./configure --enable-fork-process=3Dno I already found it out :). In the umax backend (forked reader process) I used a signal handler that catches sigkill and calls=20 sanei_scsi_req_flush_all(); when the reader_process is killed. I am not sure if this is necessary but I think I

[sane-devel] sanei_thread: pthread test on linux possible?

2004-01-12 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 06:49:12PM +0100, Oliver Rauch wrote: > I would like to do some tests with sanei_thread. > Is it possible to actiavte the pthread based code on linux? ./configure --enable-fork-process=no Bye, Henning

[sane-devel] vendor linux drivers for Epson scanners

2004-01-12 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 06:26:38PM +0100, Steffen Evers wrote: > So, maybe some of you would like to check this out: > http://www.epkowa.co.jp/english/linux_e/index.html That's the epkowa backend. Our lists already point to it, e.g. try searching for the Epson 1260: http://www.sane-project.o

[sane-devel] sanei_thread: pthread test on linux possible?

2004-01-12 Thread Oliver Rauch
Hello. I would like to do some tests with sanei_thread. Is it possible to actiavte the pthread based code on linux? In aclocal.m4 it looks like it is only enabled for MacOS X: case "${host_os}" in darwin*) # currently only enabled on MacOS X use_pthread=3Dyes ;; *) use_pthread=3

[sane-devel] vendor linux drivers for Epson scanners

2004-01-12 Thread Steffen Evers
Hello! Maybe all of you know, but for me this is very new. I have called Epson and asked them about Linux support for the Stylus RX 500 and they told me that THEY provide Linux drivers for several printers and scanners, too. Unfortunately, currently not for the RX500. So, maybe some of you would l

[sane-devel] HP Scanjet 3690 support

2004-01-12 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 08:49:00AM -0800, Lone Directory wrote: > I'm new to Sane, so please forgive me if I'm asking > one of those anoying questions... There are no annoying questions. Well, there are, but this is not one of them :-) > I just received a HP > Scanjet 3690 scanner. It is a c

[sane-devel] Re: UMAX Astra 2200 SU via USB

2004-01-12 Thread Rainer Lay
Hi, what I've done: - get cvs version of backend - compiled it - copied manually the libsane-umax.so.1.0.13 to its destination - startet xsane - executed a final scan - verified, that the quality calibration is no available as an option what I've not done so far: - checked the scsi solution. I fi

[sane-devel] UMAX backend with sanei_thread, Mac OS-X users please try, OS/2 users please try!

2004-01-12 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Oliver Rauch wrote: > Hello. > > I just replaced the fork() calls by sanei_thread_*() calls for the sane-umax > backend. I tested it wirk fork() and threads on linux. This version is in the > sane cvs now. > > Please could some Mac OS-X and OS/2 users test this version! I wou

[sane-devel] HP Scanjet 3670...

2004-01-12 Thread Adrian Perez Jorge
Hi, 1. Is there any usbsnoopy log published on-line in the Internet for the HP3670 and/or HP2400 models? 2. Preview scan will be enough for a initial analysis. Does the scanner work after the preview scan then using usbsnoopy? 3. You said you dont' receive anything in the log, but does

[sane-devel] problem connecting to saned over network

2004-01-12 Thread Jochen Eisinger
Hello, the problem with "Address already in use" is probably caused by an incorrect shell script. You cannot give option -d to saned in such a script but have to execute saned without parameters. On http://penguin-breeder.org/sane/saned/ an example is given. The other problem you've stated is tha

[sane-devel] HP Scanjet 3670...

2004-01-12 Thread Sanjay Chigurupati
Hi, I tried contacting HP too. Had met Bdale garbee at Linux Bangalore meet. he said he would try to see if he could help. will send him one more e-mail and see if it works. also tried contacting one of the R &D people. Bdale said that some of the scanner chipsets are from 3rdparty and may have non

[sane-devel] HP Scanjet 3690 support

2004-01-12 Thread Lone Directory
Dear All, I'm new to Sane, so please forgive me if I'm asking one of those anoying questions... I just received a HP Scanjet 3690 scanner. It is a cheap but nice one: it has also support for slides/films. My Suse 9.0 was not able to recognize my scanner and in the sane supported devices I didn't

[sane-devel] problem connecting to saned over network

2004-01-12 Thread Bruce Bertrand
Trying to connect to saned from remote computer on local network. If I start saned manually with the debug option (-d128), I can connect fine via telnet and even use xsane. When I add the proper line to xinetd.conf, I can not connect. I've made the shell script to allow debug mode w/xinetd