[sane-devel] SANE2, time for a decision

2007-01-08 Thread Ariel Garcia
Hi everybody, > I also think we should setup a more or less small > group of developers who are willing to help Oliver > to finish the sane2 standard. We might should setup > a list of stuff that should also go into this new > standard - this list should be more or less a whishlist, > which means

[sane-devel] Nikon LS50ED/LS5000 Backend

2005-11-14 Thread Ariel Garcia
Hi, > It wanted to try latest version of sane bakend for LS50ED Nikon scanner. > It seems that I don't get the right version. I have backend 1.0.16. Does > this include the latest developpement ? No, you'd need to patch it, or try the precompiled lib. Please refer to the following mail in SANE m

[OT] Re: [sane-devel] Nikon LS50

2005-11-14 Thread Ariel Garcia
> i was curious to know if the Broadcom wireless you're reverse sorry guys, this was not supposed to go to SANE m-l! :-( Have a nice day, Ariel

[sane-devel] Nikon LS50

2005-11-14 Thread Ariel Garcia
Hi Johannes, > As soon as I finish reverse engineering the damn Broadcom > wireless driver I'll go buy an LS5000 (wanted one for a long time, but i was curious to know if the Broadcom wireless you're reverse engineering is also the one used in Apple's Powerbooks? (airport extreme) Seems to be th

[sane-devel] Nikon LS50/5000

2005-11-10 Thread Ariel Garcia
Hi Spiro, answering your two last mails here, hope it is not too mixed up > the package I use is: media-gfx/xsane from http://www.xsane.org/ yes, thanks, i had seen it long ago and already forgotten ;-( Now i've been testing it with the LS50 and it worked fine, it is quite a nice frontend. (tes

[sane-devel] Nikon LS50

2005-11-02 Thread Ariel Garcia
Hi Giuseppe, > 1. I cannot test it against current CVS since alioth have a disk full > problem, so I cannot update my three-days-old CVS copy; don't worry too much about that, the cs2 backend did not change since a while ago > 2. it seems that you use C++ style comments while the source is C. m

[sane-devel] Nikon LS50/5000

2005-11-02 Thread Ariel Garcia
Hi, > finally I made your patch to work and compiled sane-backends with it. I > am using version sane-backends-1.0.15 no problem, the coolscan2 driver didn't change since a while ago > When I run Xsane, I get the option to choose between the two scanners I > have (Epson and Nikon) and get a new

[sane-devel] Re: Nikon LS50

2005-10-17 Thread Ariel Garcia
> this is great.! Congrats. Now, how about the NIKON LS-5000? I am waiting > for your driver so that I can start my project, hopefully. Any idea of > where you are at so far? Hopefully the LS-5000 will work also with the same fixes, didn't check the specs though, but you'll get to test the patch

[sane-devel] Nikon LS50

2005-10-17 Thread Ariel Garcia
Hi all, i just wanted to let you know that i finally got the coolscan V working with Sane :-)) it took a while because the docu is quite twisted to understand. I still don't have a patch to provide, because i hardcoded some parameter, but will get in touch with Andras to get something usable

[sane-devel] Nikon LS 5000 updates...

2005-09-26 Thread Ariel Garcia
Hi Spiro, > I was wandering how were you doing with this scanner. Any luck by > receiving the SDK fron Nikon? yes, took 5 months and 3 requests (first lost by processing, second in post(??)) but i finally got it a few weeks ago :-)) I'm working on it, i spent some time understanding usb protocol

[sane-devel] Nikon LS 5000

2005-08-15 Thread Ariel Garcia
Hi, > Finally my request for the NDA was accepted by Nikon i was told (took 3 > months because i didn't request it under a company hood) so i should > get the specs "soon". I also have the scanner so i hope to be able to > get it working ;-) (hope is the last thing you should loose, right? > ;

[sane-devel] Nikon LS 5000]

2005-07-07 Thread Ariel Garcia
Hi Spiro, > I am glad you are working on this scanner as I see more people needing > your assistance. > > As for me, I am now very happy because the project I have to work on is > very big; it involved about 15000 pictures (35mm) and the sponsor, for > charity, trusts my work. So, on my behalf, I

[sane-devel] Nikon LS 5000

2005-07-06 Thread Ariel Garcia
Hi, > Please check out the archives of this list -- we have hashed out quite a > few times what is necessary, what we have etc. A bunch of people > (including me) have access to the specifications (under NDA) but not the > hardware (I don't, for example) Finally my request for the NDA was accepte

[sane-devel] Nikon Coolscan V ED / LS 50 ED

2005-05-17 Thread Ariel Garcia
Hi, > I whish to know if somebody has developpe a driver for a Nikon LS 5O ED > scanner ? no, the coolscan 2 backend does not work for it (it fails after starting a preview, so nothing useful) I had hoped to be able to make it work but i am still waiting for Nikon to decide if they are going to

[sane-devel] Re: SANE & LS50ED

2005-04-29 Thread Ariel Garcia
Hello, On Monday 14 February 2005 10:19, Johannes Berg wrote: > Yes. Call Nikon, they'll point you to the application forms. You have to > sign a NDA and they send you the docs on CDs. well, i sent the request for the SDK some weeks ago, and now i called to know the status of my request and they

[sane-devel] Re: SANE & LS50ED

2005-02-12 Thread Ariel Garcia
> >Thanks a lot Ariel. I have no time at all these days, anyone like to > >volunteer to have a look? > > Can we have the documentation of the scanner protocol ? :-) Ah! that way it would be easy... the whole fun is doing that without it!! ;-)) Ariel

[sane-devel] Re: SANE & LS50ED

2005-02-09 Thread Ariel Garcia
Hi, > A typical block is appended, i will put the full log online tomorrow, i'll > let you know. i've put the full logs of the nikonscan communication with the coolscan LS50ED in http://cvs.fzk.de/~ariel/linux/scanner/cs2usb.log.gz http://cvs.fzk.de/~ariel/linux/scanner/cs2usb.cleaned.log.gz bo

[sane-devel] Re: SANE & LS50ED

2005-02-07 Thread Ariel Garcia
Hi Johannes and Andras, yes, it has been a long time since my last mail... :-( i've been quite busy but i also spent some time trying to do a usb dump of the Nikonscan communication with the scanner. After spending some time searching for how to make it i was amazed to see that a simple mini-scan

[sane-devel] Re: SANE & LS50ED

2005-01-05 Thread Ariel Garcia
Hi, > What we need is someone to spare a few hours and check the USB log of > VueScan or Nikonscan against the Coolscan2 code. There's something the > scanner doesn't like which is probably not even prohibited by the > specs. Any takers? I can send you the latest version of Coolscan2 with > which

[sane-devel] Re: SANE & LS50ED

2004-12-19 Thread Ariel Garcia
Hi, > Apparently it does not work, sorry. As you noticed, I had cross-posted > to sane-devel, and Andras said he also had tried that. I'm waiting for > him to send me more of his recent code now. i've being playing with the trivial "add-the-missing-ids" patch today, and i realized that there is