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

2003-03-21 Thread James Beard
> To summarize, I think these changes are necessary: > > 4. ideally, we also want a (SANE-independent) tool for creating >profiles based on scans from calibrated targets. Does SCARSE sound like what is needed (http://www.scarse.org)? With a name like "Scanner CAlibration ReaSonably Easy", it

[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] frame alignment with nikon ls-40 (coolscan2) strip feeder

2002-06-25 Thread James Beard
Hi again, The ls-40 comes with a six frame film strip feeder. However, the alignment of the finished scans is off by a fair amount. For an example check out http://www.lexicon.net/hertz/res/images/alignment.jpg Examining the way I orient the film, the scanner doesn't seem to be pulling it in fa

[sane-devel] unknown vendor using ls-40 with freebsd

2002-06-23 Thread James Beard
Thanks Henning. > > sane-find-scanner > > - > > sane-find-scanner: found USB scanner (UNKNOWN vendor and product) at > > device /dev/uscanner > > sane-find-scanner: found USB scanner (UNKNOWN vendor and product) at > > device /dev/uscanner0 > > Now the open succeeded which means t

[sane-devel] unknown vendor using ls-40 with freebsd

2002-06-18 Thread James Beard
Hi all, I'm having trouble getting my Nikon LS-40 to work with freebsd 4.3 and sane-backends-1.0.8. There are a number of things that I've tried, but I've hit something of a wall. First, some system info: dmesg - uhci0: port 0x6000-0x601f irq 11 at device 7.2 on pci0 usb0: on uhci0 usb0: