Re: [sane-devel] libsane-imagescan.so.1' (No such file or directory)

2018-02-19 Thread Johannes Meixner
Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton - HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) -- sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubs

Re: [sane-devel] [janitorial] Relocating the SANE Project

2018-01-09 Thread Johannes Meixner
b might become unusable for free software (in this case things could be hosted anywhere else) and because it is free software I don't care if GitHub monitors and evaluates all what goes on in GitHub because all is public anyway (I see no real differece compared to a public mailing list with public a

Re: [sane-devel] SANE needs a GUI like CUPS's 'system-config-printer' to manually add a network scanner.

2017-11-27 Thread Johannes Meixner
t a special harddisk there is nothing what the user could do any further, except update his kernel to get hopefully a new/updated driver that can detect (and use) his special harddisk. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton - HRB

Re: [sane-devel] Fuji Xerox M225 dw scanner visible via avahi, sane-find-scanner but not scanimage (Ubuntu 17.04)

2017-08-23 Thread Johannes Meixner
scanning from a workstation via a SANE frontend, see the section about "How to use a professional network printer scanner copier all-in-one device" in https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Configuring_Scanners Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smit

Re: [sane-devel] [janitorial] leading whitespace: spaces XOR tabs

2017-07-13 Thread Johannes Meixner
l indentations look well even in 'diff' output (i.e. in patches) which aids readability of patches for humans. Finally I think Olaf Meeuwissen should do us all a favour and let make us all more money by using spaces instead of tabs ;-) Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH

Re: [sane-devel] Sane-backends 1.0.27 has been released

2017-05-24 Thread Johannes Meixner
guring_Scanners Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton - HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) -- sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel Unsubscribe: Send

Re: [sane-devel] Getting ready for sane-backends release

2017-05-15 Thread Johannes Meixner
econf good or bad in general? Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton - HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) -- sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel Unsubsc

Re: [sane-devel] Version numbering (was Re: Fix PPA build)

2017-05-15 Thread Johannes Meixner
e 9.14 to intermediate Ghostscript release candidates like 9.14pre15rc1 and further to 9.14pre15rc2 and 9.14pre15rc3 as they like and finally to the next Ghostscript release 9.15. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton - HRB 21284 (AG

Re: [sane-devel] Xerox WorkCentre 6027

2017-04-25 Thread Johannes Meixner
" in https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Configuring_Scanners Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton - HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) -- sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailma

Re: [sane-devel] FUJITSU ScanSnap iX500 - default page format?

2017-03-07 Thread Johannes Meixner
B:Landscape_Printing Basically 'A4' versus 'Letter' can go wrong in the same way as 'Landscape' versus 'Portrait' can go wrong. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton - HRB 21284 (AG Nuernbe

Re: [sane-devel] genesys : "Error during device I/O"

2017-02-15 Thread Johannes Meixner
Hello, On Feb 12 19:33 Pierre Couderc wrote (excerpt): On 02/09/2017 01:49 PM, Johannes Meixner wrote: See "Trouble-Shooting (Debugging)" at https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Configuring_Scanners ... my USBs are USB2 ... ... I thnk there is a problem with genesys ... ...

Re: [sane-devel] genesys : "Error during device I/O"

2017-02-09 Thread Johannes Meixner
kernel driver/module issues (a.k.a. "USB 3") are the most often cause of "Error during device I/O", cf. http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2016-November/034901.html and follow the links therein. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoer

Re: [sane-devel] Using Find Command in XSane PDF File

2017-02-01 Thread Johannes Meixner
. For example things like black and white scanning at a relatively low resolution could help to get better OCR results compared to high resolution photo scanning modes. Perhaps also the data format of what is scanned could make a difference (e.g. PNG versus JPEG or even PDF) for OCR. Kind Rega

Re: [sane-devel] Canon LiDE 220

2017-01-09 Thread Johannes Meixner
-4.40.x86_64 sane-backends-32bit-1.0.24-4.40.x86_64 sane-backends-autoconfig-1.0.24-4.40.x86_64 Accordingly I would first and foremost upgrade to the current SANE release 1.0.25. See https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Configuring_Scanners Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix

Re: [sane-devel] [janitorial] project member list and maintenance status clean up

2016-12-19 Thread Johannes Meixner
guilt ;-) Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton - HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) -- sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel Unsubscribe: Send mail

Re: [sane-devel] sane compatible copier

2016-11-21 Thread Johannes Meixner
ensuse.org/SDB:Configuring_Scanners Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton - HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) -- sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/

Re: [sane-devel] I/O Errors with hp 7400c

2016-11-15 Thread Johannes Meixner
able price compared to the currently still ongoing annoyance with this issue (independent of when the issue may get solved at some time in the future). Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton - HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) -- sane-devel mai

Re: [sane-devel] new Backenddriver

2016-10-19 Thread Johannes Meixner
, then I would understand a SANE backend for it. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton - HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) -- sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo

Re: [sane-devel] Degrading images: Plustek OpticPro UT16

2016-09-23 Thread Johannes Meixner
reproduce it or debug the root cause so that all I did was basically blind guess, e.g. see: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=905034#c18 Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton - HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) -- sane-devel mailing

Re: [sane-devel] [Janitorial] Zero(!) compiler warnings

2016-09-21 Thread Johannes Meixner
uilds with automated tests that reject code changes that introduce warnings? Hope this helps, Yes, your work helps so much! Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton - HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) -- sane-devel mail

Re: [sane-devel] [janitorial] musl builder, PDF SANE Standard, __sane_unused__

2016-07-19 Thread Johannes Meixner
2012) via "configure --enable-libusb_1_0". I am not aware of issues because of this. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton - HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) -- sane-dev

Re: [sane-devel] Canon Lide scanners stopped working in Ubuntu 16.04

2016-06-22 Thread Johannes Meixner
he USB bus and port where the scanner is connected to you are hit by the current general USB 3 issues in the kernel. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton - HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) -- sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.al

Re: [sane-devel] xsane root only

2016-05-09 Thread Johannes Meixner
es out of sight" that should also work for SCSI scanners. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton - HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) -- sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-

Re: [sane-devel] Is the Iscan backend "epkowa" also affected by USB3 issues?

2016-04-28 Thread Johannes Meixner
ke a difference. That is because the dll backend doesn't do anything USB related itself. Hope this helps, Many thanks for your explanation. It helps a lot! Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton - HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) -

[sane-devel] Is the Iscan backend "epkowa" also affected by USB3 issues?

2016-04-27 Thread Johannes Meixner
ence whether or not the "epkowa" backend works with the xhci_hcd kernel module. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton - HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) -- sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth

Re: [sane-devel] HP ScanJet 7400c open of device faled: invalid arguement

2016-04-27 Thread Johannes Meixner
t_hub, Driver=ehci-pci/2p, 480M ... /: Bus 01.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=ehci-pci/2p, 480M I would expect "Driver=ehci_hci" not "Driver=ehci-pci" but I am not at all a kernel expert to know details. If those USB ports have connectors at the outside of yo

Re: [sane-devel] HP ScanJet 7400c open of device faled: invalid arguement

2016-04-26 Thread Johannes Meixner
nformation See "Trouble-Shooting (Debugging)" at https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Configuring_Scanners Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton - HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) -- sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.al

Re: [sane-devel] Xerox Workcentre 3225 support?

2016-03-22 Thread Johannes Meixner
the openSUSE project benefits most when you "pay" with some of your time. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton - HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) -- sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.ali

Re: [sane-devel] Xerox Workcentre 3225 support?

2016-03-21 Thread Johannes Meixner
E versions because meanwhile the gphoto2 backend was removed because its usefulness is highly questionable, but adds many (indirect) build and runtime dependencies, see the current RPM changelog: https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/graphics/sane-backends/sane-backends.changes?expand=1 Kind

Re: [sane-devel] external backend license

2016-03-15 Thread Johannes Meixner
particular for openSUSE you may have a look at "Third-Party Scanner Drivers" at https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Configuring_Scanners Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton - HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) -- sane-devel mailing list:

Re: [sane-devel] Problem getting Epson V370 Photo working under OpenSuSE

2016-03-10 Thread Johannes Meixner
r have time to actively maintain and update the YaST scanner module. Therefore (as long as nobody else cares about it) it stays in its current form (frankly: it bitrots). My last real adaption dated May 08 2012 (cf. "rpm -q --changelog yast2-scanner") because of https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/sho

Re: [sane-devel] Scanner Lide 210 working with old and bleeding edge distro, but not with current stable distro

2016-03-03 Thread Johannes Meixner
the kernel because canges in recent kernels had caused some issues regarding USB scanner communication in sane-backends - but I am not at all a sufficient USB expert to know the details here. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton -

Re: [sane-devel] Scanner Lide 210 working with old and bleeding edge distro, but not with current stable distro

2016-03-03 Thread Johannes Meixner
non-openSUSE back to openSUSE to identify suspicious packages from non-openSUSE that had replaced ones from openSUSE. The '-D' option "dry-run" does not actually install or update any package. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard,

Re: [sane-devel] Scanner Lide 210 working with old and bleeding edge distro, but not with current stable distro

2016-03-03 Thread Johannes Meixner
eap:42.1 software repositories. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton - HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) -- sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-dev

Re: [sane-devel] Scanner Lide 210 working with old and bleeding edge distro, but not with current stable distro

2016-02-23 Thread Johannes Meixner
L unset SANE_DEBUG_SANEI_USB Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton - HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) -- sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org ht

Re: [sane-devel] Scanner Lide 210 working with old and bleeding edge distro, but not with current stable distro

2016-02-22 Thread Johannes Meixner
see https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=856794#c50 Regarding "USB 2" versus "USB 3" see also http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2015-December/034197.html and http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2015-December/034207.html Kind Regards Joh

Re: [sane-devel] Some weirdness with a Canon LiDE 220

2015-12-17 Thread Johannes Meixner
USB 3.0) nor teal blue (USB 3.1), cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB#Colors On my testing machine xhci_hcd is used for all USB ports where I can connect devices (i.e. all external USB ports). Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smitha

Re: [sane-devel] Some weirdness with a Canon LiDE 220

2015-12-16 Thread Johannes Meixner
e to get USB debugging information you could use comands (as root) like - export SANE_DEBUG_SANEI_USB=128 scanimage -L unset SANE_DEBUG_SANEI_USB ----- Kind Regards Johann

Re: [sane-devel] multiple, identical scanners?

2015-11-11 Thread Johannes Meixner
could use comands (as root) like - export SANE_DEBUG_SANEI_USB=128 scanimage -L unset SANE_DEBUG_SANEI_USB - Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix

Re: [sane-devel] Xsane can't find scanner - again, but this one is USB

2015-11-05 Thread Johannes Meixner
licking [Close] finishes xsane. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton - HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) -- sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel Unsub

Re: [sane-devel] Xsane can't find scanner - again, but this one is USB

2015-11-04 Thread Johannes Meixner
ays "just works". There are computers where USB3 fails under certain conditions. Perhaps there are computers where USB3 always fails. - Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerff

Re: [sane-devel] Xsane can't find scanner - again, but this one is USB

2015-10-30 Thread Johannes Meixner
?id=856794#c40 Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton - HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) -- sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel Unsubscribe: Send

Re: [sane-devel] 1.0.25 is out, now what?

2015-10-30 Thread Johannes Meixner
the actual backends (driver libraries) all of a sudden. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton - HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) -- sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailma

Re: [sane-devel] Xsane can't find scanner - again, but this one is USB

2015-10-30 Thread Johannes Meixner
ll 4 ports. -- FYI, see also https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=856794#c40 Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton - HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) -- sane-devel mailing list:

Re: [sane-devel] Xsane can't find scanner - again, but this one is USB

2015-10-30 Thread Johannes Meixner
use.org/SDB:How_to_Report_a_Printing_Issue In general if you are really interested in free software read the various articles at the Free Software Foundation. Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton - HRB 21284 (AG Nuernb

Re: [sane-devel] 1.0.25 is out, now what?

2015-10-28 Thread Johannes Meixner
Hello On Oct 28 20:18 Olaf Meeuwissen wrote (excerpt): Johannes Meixner writes: ... Suggestion for an additional goal for sane-backends-1.0.26: - drop support for parallel port scanners Low priority for 1.0.26 at best. Also for me this is low priority because I have zero issue reports

Re: [sane-devel] 1.0.25 is out, now what?

2015-10-21 Thread Johannes Meixner
fixed. But I needed additionally the workarounds for the broken xhci driver in sane-backends-1.0.25 i.e. sane-backends-1.0.24 did not work for me with kernel-vanilla-4.3.rc5, see https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=856794#c28 Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Feli

Re: [sane-devel] Scanner CanoScan9000 Mk2

2015-10-21 Thread Johannes Meixner
d it fails on all 4 ports. -- Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton - HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) -- sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http:/

Re: [sane-devel] 1.0.25 is out, now what?

2015-10-21 Thread Johannes Meixner
because normal-user read/write access via ACL is independent of the device node group so that the device node group could be changed to "lp" without regressions for normal-user read/write access. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, G

Re: [sane-devel] root can scan, user not...

2015-10-21 Thread Johannes Meixner
Scanners Regardless that this article is for openSUSE the general ideas behind should be same on other Linux distributions. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton - HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) -- sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lis

Re: [sane-devel] Fixing sequencing issues (was Re: Proposed Upgrade (pu) branches on GitLab)

2015-10-01 Thread Johannes Meixner
Hello, an addendum only for the fun of it that is not meant as starting point for a discussion about coding style: On Sep 28 21:07 m. allan noah wrote (excerpt): On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 7:04 AM, Johannes Meixner wrote: In sane-backends-git20150928 in backend/microtek2.c there is line 7456

Re: [sane-devel] Fixing sequencing issues (was Re: Proposed Upgrade (pu) branches on GitLab)

2015-09-28 Thread Johannes Meixner
foo++; /* or "++foo;" or "foo = foo + 1;" as one likes */ and same reasoning for "--foo" and "foo--". Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton - HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) -- sane-devel mailing list:

Re: [sane-devel] Fixing sequencing issues (was Re: Proposed Upgrade (pu) branches on GitLab)

2015-09-25 Thread Johannes Meixner
ds: When something is not 100% clear/clean for the compiler, it is actually not clear/clean. Kind regards and have a nice weekend! Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton - HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) -- sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lis

Re: [sane-devel] Proposed Upgrade (pu) branches on GitLab

2015-09-25 Thread Johannes Meixner
This is only used here as a simple example. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton - HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) -- sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/list

Re: [sane-devel] Preparing for a sane-backends release

2015-09-14 Thread Johannes Meixner
Hello Olaf On Sep 12 17:30 Olaf Meeuwissen wrote (excerpt): Johannes Meixner writes: ... I wonder if support for parallel port scanners is still needed? Me wonders too. ... You could build your SANE library packages without the backends for parallel scanners and see how many bug reports

Re: [sane-devel] Unsupported scanner

2015-09-14 Thread Johannes Meixner
st kernel 4.1.1-040101 is needed to have this particular issues fixed in the kernel. There are some workarounds in newer sane-backends development versions to deal with the USB3 xhci kernel module issues in older kernels. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smit

Re: [sane-devel] plustek backend failing to open device under non-root

2015-09-11 Thread Johannes Meixner
scanner access permissions via udev" in https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Configuring_Scanners Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton - HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) -- sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.a

Re: [sane-devel] SANE_CAP_ALWAYS_SETTABLE (was Re: Preparing for a sane-backends release)

2015-08-05 Thread Johannes Meixner
possible extent to be in compliance with SANE upstream. (I had done such a reset to compliance with upstream in about 2004 when I became maintainer of sane-backends). By the way - if you agree - I would like to drop support for parallel port scanners, see my other mail. Kind Regards Johannes

Re: [sane-devel] SANE_CAP_ALWAYS_SETTABLE (was Re: Preparing for a sane-backends release)

2015-08-05 Thread Johannes Meixner
her mail). Only for the fun: It is the same when other programs use undocumented private API calls from CUPS (e.g. by blind copy and paste CUPS source code). When later the other programs break because CUPS' private API changed, then they cry "CUPS is to blame: CUPS is broken" ;-)

Re: [sane-devel] SANE_CAP_ALWAYS_SETTABLE (was Re: Preparing for a sane-backends release)

2015-08-05 Thread Johannes Meixner
Hello, On Aug 5 08:21 Olaf Meeuwissen wrote (excerpt): Johannes Meixner writes: ... My re-add-SANE_CAP_ALWAYS_SETTABLE.patch re-adds SANE_CAP_ALWAYS_SETTABLE to sane.h which was erroneously removed in sane-backends-1.0.20 so that sane-frontends and xsane can no longer build, see http

Re: [sane-devel] Preparing for a sane-backends release

2015-08-04 Thread Johannes Meixner
parallel port scanners. In this case parallel port scanner drivers should be dropped because in practice they are no longer maintained. As a first step parallel port scanner drivers could be no longer built by default e.g. via something like configure --without-parport by default. Kind Regar

Re: [sane-devel] Preparing for a sane-backends release

2015-08-04 Thread Johannes Meixner
set?" at https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Bug_reporting_FAQ If some of them are really still of interest they will reopen. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Dilip Upmanyu, Graham Norton - HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) -- sane-devel mail

Re: [sane-devel] SANE not working with Canon Canoscan LiDE N676U

2015-03-10 Thread Johannes Meixner
lustek:libusb:003:005' is a Canon CanoScan N670U/N676U/LiDE20 flatbed scanner" Perhaps a newer SANE version might also help in your case, see https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=920067 in particular therein see https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=920067#c26 Kind Reg

Re: [sane-devel] Kyocera ECOSYS M6526cdn usable with SANE?

2015-02-11 Thread Johannes Meixner
ing directly, see https://bugs.linuxfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1234 I don't know if Kyocera perhaps already provides a PPD file for their ECOSYS M6526cdn model that supports direct PDF printing. Cf. HP devices that support direct PDF printing: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/1385273 Kind

Re: [sane-devel] Imageclass D530 Scanner Support (New Patch?)

2014-10-21 Thread Johannes Meixner
r you xsane pixma:04A92775_1144T3603236 should (hopefully) work. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH -- Maxfeldstrasse 5 -- 90409 Nuernberg -- Germany HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendoerffer -- sane-devel mailing list: sane-

Re: [sane-devel] Imageclass D530 Scanner Support (New Patch?)

2014-10-21 Thread Johannes Meixner
provided you let the "saned" run as root). Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH -- Maxfeldstrasse 5 -- 90409 Nuernberg -- Germany HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendoerffer -- sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http

Re: [sane-devel] Fujitsu S1500 unable to stay connected

2014-09-25 Thread Johannes Meixner
Regarding USB issues, there is some very generic information at http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Configuring_Scanners#USB Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH -- Maxfeldstrasse 5 -- 90409 Nuernberg -- Germany HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Im

Re: [sane-devel] Canon D530 scanner

2014-07-15 Thread Johannes Meixner
v=04a9&p=2775 results "No matches found" and there is no "D530" listed at http://www.sane-project.org/cgi-bin/driver.pl?manu=canon&model=imageCLASS See also http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Configuring_Scanners#Scanner and http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Configuring_Scanners#Th

[sane-devel] canon dr-2580c invalid argument

2014-05-09 Thread Johannes Meixner
p://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/jsmeix/SLE_11_SP3/ Before you install such RPM packages, carefully read https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=home%3Ajsmeix ------ Home Project of Johannes Meixner http://en.opensu

[sane-devel] MX925: Scan via Display to SANE??

2014-05-05 Thread Johannes Meixner
irst of all scanning from the computer must work with SANE when the device is connected directly via USB to the computer. When this works, button-based scanning could be set up and/or the device might be connected via (wireless) network. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH

[sane-devel] Brother MFC-420CN via USB connection

2013-12-11 Thread Johannes Meixner
nt of view I don't think there is an issue in XSane or in SANE because otherwise there should have been more such reports and not only for drivers from Brother. >From my current point of view it looks more like an issue in the drivers from Brother. I think you should get in contact with Br

[sane-devel] Sane problem with Brother MFC J6710DW scanner.

2013-12-11 Thread Johannes Meixner
amp;v=&p= does not list a "Brother MFC-J6710DW" and even http://www.sane-project.org/lists/sane-backends-external.html does not list a "brother4" driver (backend). Therefore it seems you use a currently unknown third-party driver. Regarding "Third-Party Scanner Drivers"

[sane-devel] HP PSC 1310 scanner

2013-12-10 Thread Johannes Meixner
ssue here. For a few details you may have a look at https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=836937 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1006674 Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH -- Maxfeldstrasse 5 -- 90409 Nuernberg -- Germany HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) GF: Jef

[sane-devel] sane-devel Digest, Vol 101, Issue 5

2013-11-06 Thread Johannes Meixner
x27;s" see the section about "Scanning via Network" in http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Configuring_Scanners In short: For big MFPs, don't use SANE - instead ensure that the device supports "stand-alone scan to e-mail". Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH -- Maxfeldstrasse 5 -- 90409 Nuernberg -- Germany HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendoerffer

[sane-devel] Contradicting support info for HP ScanJet 2400C/G2410

2013-10-02 Thread Johannes Meixner
Hello, by chance I detected right now that http://www.sane-project.org/cgi-bin/driver.pl?manu=&model=&bus=any&v=03f0&p=0a01 shows the HP ScanJet 2400C both as "unsupported" and as "complete" and additionaly a clone device "HP ScanJet G2410" on

[sane-devel] pthread support

2013-08-27 Thread Johannes Meixner
adays pthread should be enabled by default for Linux? Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH -- Maxfeldstrasse 5 -- 90409 Nuernberg -- Germany HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendoerffer

[sane-devel] scanner not found

2013-04-02 Thread Johannes Meixner
t works but the OS is not preselected to be "Linux"). When I update this text, I may remove the "formerly Avasys" parts. Are there other errors or inappropriate wording that should be fixed? Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH -- Maxfeldstrasse 5 -- 90409 Nuernberg -- Germany HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendoerffer

[sane-devel] HP All-in-one

2013-03-14 Thread Johannes Meixner
net/ which redirects to http://hplipopensource.com/ which is actually http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html It works but seems the link in http://www.sane-project.org/lists/sane-backends-external.html#S-HPAIO could be updated to point directly to the HPLIP web site. Kind Regards Johan

[sane-devel] backend distribution question

2013-01-25 Thread Johannes Meixner
b" (i.e. "just making their software") which they probably like a bit more than to deal with their legal department and the legal department of the Free Software Foundation and the legal departments of various Linux distributors ;-) Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH -- Maxfeldstrasse 5 -- 90409 Nuernberg -- Germany HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendoerffer

[sane-devel] backend distribution question

2013-01-24 Thread Johannes Meixner
ardless of the method)? As far as I understand your description it seems the "Kyocera home based MFP devices" do not have "bank notes scanning prevention" functionality built-in in their hardware/firmware so that "bank notes scanning prevention" happens in the scanner

[sane-devel] untested samsung scanners: tried after installation UnifiedLinuxDriver?

2013-01-18 Thread Johannes Meixner
nder "Samsung" at http://www.sane-project.org/lists/sane-backends-external.html Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH -- Maxfeldstrasse 5 -- 90409 Nuernberg -- Germany HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendoerffer

[sane-devel] using scanners unable to USB_AUTOSUSPEND

2013-01-10 Thread Johannes Meixner
f view) so that it depends on the kernel and udev version whether or not udev rules actually work. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH -- Maxfeldstrasse 5 -- 90409 Nuernberg -- Germany HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendoerffer

[sane-devel] Other pixma_foo update for LSB

2012-10-19 Thread Johannes Meixner
provide a real fix based on his expert knowledge. For the external SANE backend "hpaio" I file a bug report at the HPLIP bug tracker, see "Report a Bug" at http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/support.html Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH -- Maxfeldstra

[sane-devel] Linux-update: scanner no more recognized

2012-08-01 Thread Johannes Meixner
ted via https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735424 Usually in such cases no (negative) response from the one who reported the issue means that it works for him. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH -- Maxfeldstrasse 5 -- 90409 Nuernberg -- Germany HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendoerffer

[sane-devel] Linux-update: scanner no more recognized

2012-08-01 Thread Johannes Meixner
ect where packages might neither be in a stable state nor fit well into currently installed systems. The packages in the "graphics" project are only for testing, without any guarantee or warranty, and without any official support. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH -

[sane-devel] ScanImage -L fails as user

2012-06-12 Thread Johannes Meixner
in /etc/sane.d/saned.conf 3. Specify the server "localhost" in /etc/sane.d/net.conf 4. Activate the "net" meta-backend in /etc/sane.d/dll.conf -- Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH -- Maxfeldstrasse 5 -- 90409 Nuernberg -- Germany HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendoerffer

[sane-devel] Could blacklisting USB devices make sense?

2012-04-19 Thread Johannes Meixner
s 255 (which are no scanners) do not like what check_usb_chip does. Then it should help in this case if USB devices could be blacklisted in SANE so that sane-find-scanner would not run check_usb_chip on them. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH -- Maxfeldstrasse 5 -- 90409 Nuern

[sane-devel] Could blacklisting USB devices make sense?

2012-04-19 Thread Johannes Meixner
nctions are not device specific. Nevertheless I think in general it could make sense to avoid issues in other exceptional cases if devices could be blacklisted in SANE. Perhaps for USB and also for SCSI in files like /etc/sane.d/sanei-usb.conf and /etc/sane.d/sanei-scsi.conf What do you think?

[sane-devel] Scanner Database

2012-02-21 Thread Johannes Meixner
THE printer database could move forward into THE printer and scanner database - in particular for end-users. In the past various individual attempts with sepatated databases died out. If you like to make a new scanner database, I think it is better to work together with the OpenPrinting workgroup and enh

[sane-devel] 55-libsane.rules

2011-09-29 Thread Johannes Meixner
=="EPSON", ATTRS{model}="Perfection*" See https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681146#c41 --- ~> lsscsi -g ... [11:0:2:0] process EPSONPerfection1640 1.03 - /dev/sg4 . . . # sa

[sane-devel] [OT?] discussion of front ends?

2011-07-14 Thread Johannes Meixner
n particular administrative offices) would accept whatever kind of data format in the same way as an original paper. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH -- Maxfeldstrasse 5 -- 90409 Nuernberg -- Germany HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendoerffer

[sane-devel] 55-libsane.rules

2011-06-21 Thread Johannes Meixner
rules Conclusion: An ATTRS{type}=="3" udev rule is missing at the SANE project for the SCSI scanner device "EPSON" "SCANNER GT-1". Perhaps the Epson people could provide a list of all their SCSI scanner devices with ATTRS{type}=="3" to the SANE project so that such issues would be solved by those who initially cause the trouble by making and selling somewhat crippled devices which do not fulfill the requirements to be real SCSI scanners. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH -- Maxfeldstrasse 5 -- 90409 Nuernberg -- Germany HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendoerffer

[sane-devel] sane - access problem with debian squeeze

2011-04-08 Thread Johannes Meixner
fficient permissions to access scanners. But using the "lp" group also for scanners in openSUSE avoids the conflict which traditional group a multi function device should get assigned. And the admin in a traditional environment can add trusted users to the "lp" group if needed in his particular case - considering what is secure in his particular (network) environment. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex

[sane-devel] Detected scanner, proper driver, won't scan

2011-03-01 Thread Johannes Meixner
ook at http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Configuring_Scanners in particular "Trouble-Shooting (Debugging)". Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex

[sane-devel] suseLINUX 11.2

2011-02-08 Thread Johannes Meixner
ugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559697#c50 what you might do. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex

[sane-devel] Saned not working any more in Lucid

2010-11-19 Thread Johannes Meixner
tcp ... 0 0.0.0.0:6566 ... 0.0.0.0:* ... LISTEN .../xinetd i.e. the xinetd is listening (the xinetd would start the actual saned when a client connects to port 6566) when then saned is used in its default mode (see "man saned"). Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH,

[sane-devel] Hello, and HP C3180 drivers

2010-11-11 Thread Johannes Meixner
P Photosmart C3180 with status "unsupported" in compliance to what a particular backend's status "unsupported" for a particular device means: --- Legend: ... Status: ... unsupported means the device is not supported at least by this backend. It may be su

[sane-devel] Detect scan button on ScanSnap S1500 (sane-fujitsu backend)

2010-11-10 Thread Johannes Meixner
Hello, On Nov 9 18:39 Wilhelm wrote (shortened): > Am 09.11.2010 17:47, schrieb Johannes Meixner: >> >> If it really needs HAL, it is probably not very promising >> because HAL is meanwhile deprecated. > > yes, I know that! > > But its not scanbd's fau

[sane-devel] Detect scan button on ScanSnap S1500 (sane-fujitsu backend)

2010-11-09 Thread Johannes Meixner
;udev". But I am not at all a udev expert so that I could be wrong here. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex

[sane-devel] Brother MFC-250C scanner support in sane

2010-11-04 Thread Johannes Meixner
p from another manufacturer see http://www.google.de/search?q=samsung+driver+setuid+root Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex

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