[sane-devel] Re: Re: Re: epson 3490 - transparency unit problem

2005-11-14 Thread Jim MacLeod
plum.pudd...@free.fr wrote: > So we use the same backend and firmware with a different result. > > Should it be due to my installation : I've make and installed the cvs code > in /usr/local without uninstalling the debian version which is in /usr > In order to use Kooka (KDE scanner prog) I start

[sane-devel] Re: Re: epson 3490 - transparency unit problem

2005-11-13 Thread Jim MacLeod
Oliver Schwartz wrote: > Hi, > >> I'm using the tpu on the 3490 with backend-11-10. It works ok >> though the scans seem quite dark compared to the original slide. >> However adjusting the gamma settings on the scanned file gives a >> nice 1024x768 display size. I'm very much a newbie at this so

[sane-devel] Re: epson 3490 - transparency unit problem

2005-11-13 Thread Jim MacLeod
Oliver Schwartz wrote: > Hi, > >> I've just bought an epson 3490, and download the >> sane-backends-2005-11-10.tar.gz and >> sane-frontends-2005-11-10.tar.gz. >> >> While the flatbed seems to work as expected, the transparency unit >> doesn't. >> >> I want to scan a negative film, but the resulti

[sane-devel] Re: Re: iscan-1.17.0

2005-10-17 Thread Jim MacLeod
Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > Henning Meier-Geinitz writes: > >> Hi, >> If scanimage works and the gui frontends don't, the usual cause is >> that you have two installations of sane-backend on your system. One is >> the one you compiled yourself (in /usr/local/...). This one is used by >> scanimage,

[sane-devel] Re: iscan-1.17.0

2005-10-16 Thread Jim MacLeod
Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > There's a good chance that the %post script was not converted so a > number of post-install activities may not have been carried out. Iscan rpm version has been purged > >> Files have installed in expected places - /usr/lib, /usr/lib/iscan etc >> and the program runs, bu

[sane-devel] iscan-1.17.0

2005-10-09 Thread Jim MacLeod
My system is kubuntu 5.10 and I'm hoping to get an Epson 3490 working. I know it's not the ideal route to go, but I downloaded the rpm version and used alien to convert it to .deb and then installed it with dpkg. The only conflict was with libsane-extra which I removed. Files have installed in exp

[sane-devel] Re: Epson Perfection 3490 -> included bugfix makes it work

2005-09-16 Thread Jim MacLeod
Bauke Jan Douma wrote: > I could also send you a pre-compiled binary libsane-snapscan.so, > for an i386 architecture, but if I were you I'd never trust any > binaries from just any joe random. Me neither!! > In my case you can make an exception though ;-) I have total confidence > Seriously, I'd

[sane-devel] Re: Epson Perfection 3490 -> included bugfix makes it work

2005-09-15 Thread Jim MacLeod
Bauke Jan Douma wrote: > Hi! > > Good news for all you with an Epson Perfection 3490 USB scanner. > > Here is a bugfix to get the 'Epson Perfection 3490' scanner working. > It now makes perfect color *.pnm scans, at full A4 size. > Great news - the only problem being that it's way beyond my cur

[sane-devel] Epson 3490

2005-08-31 Thread Jim MacLeod
I'm new to scanning and relatively new to Linux. Searched the web for info and got the impression, which others confirmed, that generally anything epson works with Linux, but maybe not the 3490! sane-find-scanner gets vendor and product code but scanimage -L finds nothing. Having now read a previo