[sane-devel] It's time to say goodbye

2007-12-27 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
Allan, yes, please do that. Karl Heinz On 12/27/07, m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com wrote: Thank you Karl. Shall we mark the backend as unmaintained? allan On 12/25/07, Karl Heinz Kremer khk at khk.net wrote: Hi my fellow Sane developers and users, as you've probably noticed

[sane-devel] It's time to say goodbye

2007-12-25 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
Hi my fellow Sane developers and users, as you've probably noticed, my activity level on this mailing list (and as far as CVS checkins go) has dropped considerably. I just don't have the time anymore to work on the EPSON backend or anything else related to Sane or even Linux. Also, most of the

[sane-devel] Negative slide?

2007-03-05 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
I don't think that negative slide is a term that is actually used: A slide is a positive transparent image, and a negative is a normal photographic negative. On 2/26/07, Olaf Meeuwissen olaf.meeuwis...@avasys.jp wrote: Giuseppe Sacco giuse...@eppesuigoccas.homedns.org writes: While updating

[sane-devel] Does Epson Expression 10000XL support auto cropping

2006-12-02 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
and pass it on to a front end program? or does the scanner do some image processing. I guess if a scanner can do some image processing, then the same or better can be done at the front-end side. Does anyone have a favorite front-end to hook up to SANE? thanks sam --- Karl Heinz Kremer k

[sane-devel] Does Epson Expression 10000XL support auto cropping

2006-12-01 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
image and pass it on to a front end program? or does the scanner do some image processing. I guess if a scanner can do some image processing, then the same or better can be done at the front-end side. Does anyone have a favorite front-end to hook up to SANE? thanks sam --- Karl Heinz

[sane-devel] Epson usb scanner hangs up

2006-06-20 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
Is the scanner connected via a USB hub? If so, does it make a difference if you connect it directly to the computer? Do you have another USB interface that you could try? A different cable? Karl Heinz On Jun 17, 2006, at 6:15 AM, Ruell Magpayo wrote: Hi I need help in configuring in

[sane-devel] Epson 4490

2006-05-31 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
First of all, vuescan has nothing to do with Sane, so I'm not commenting on your remarks about vuescan. I am not planning infrared support for the Sane backend. This is something that should be handled outside of the backend, so that it's useful for all scanners that support an infrared

[sane-devel] Epson Perfection V700 Photo

2006-05-31 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
I can confirm your hunch, the V700/V750 scanners do use the ESC/I protocol, and from what I know (I have not seen one yet) about these scanners, chances are pretty good that they will work the current version of the EPSON backend. You do need to add the USB information to the epson.desc

[sane-devel] Epson CX7800

2006-01-02 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
Dan, sorry for the late reply. You can set the debug environment variable and then run the scanimage program again. This will record all information that's exchanged between the scanner and the backend. For the EPSON backend, do the following: export SANE_DEBUG_EPSON=128 scanimage

[sane-devel] problems with scanimage

2005-12-18 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
What scanner are you using? On Dec 15, 2005, at 4:02 AM, johon Doe wrote: --- Henning Meier-Geinitz henn...@meier-geinitz.de wrote: Hi, On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 09:43:13AM -0800, johon Doe wrote: The backend you use doesn't seem to provide the option custom-gamma. scanimage --help

[sane-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Code freeze for sane-backends 1.0.17

2005-12-11 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
If I understand you correctly, then the problem is that there is no description for the sharpness control. Is this correct? That would be a fix in code, which is no longer permitted under the code freeze. Karl Heinz On Dec 11, 2005, at 3:36 PM, Mogens Jaeger wrote: Henning Meier-Geinitz

[sane-devel] Re: AcuLaser CX11NF

2005-11-06 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
Thanks for this information. Can you please provide the USB vendor and product ID for this scanner. On Nov 6, 2005, at 11:24 AM, Alessandro Zummo wrote: Hello, I just wanted to report the scanner in subject works fine with both sane-epkowa and sane-epson. I tried bw, grayscale and

[sane-devel] Sane doesn't create a scanner device

2005-10-25 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
You need to configure your hotplug system - this will then create the scanner device for you once the scanner is connected to the system. I'm not familiar with Gentoo, so I don't know how this is done with your system. On Oct 24, 2005, at 6:40 PM, dark_m...@gmx.net wrote: I'm using an

[sane-devel] SuSE 10.0 gets Out of memory for Epson 4870 (GT-X700)

2005-10-22 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
The error message comes from the scanner, and not Sane or XSane (or any other application). Try to make your scan area slightly smaller and see if this allows you to perform the scan. Karl Heinz On Oct 22, 2005, at 8:55 AM, Roger Price wrote: Dear List, For a year my Epson Perfection 4870

? about [sane-devel] Epson GT 15000 not recognized by SANE

2005-09-20 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
On Sep 19, 2005, at 7:32 PM, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: Kent Braun k...@digicel.net writes: I hope you don?t mind me asking. I?m trying to find out if there is a way to get the Epson GT-15000 to run on OS X. What OS are you running it under and how is it working? The GT-15000 works

[sane-devel] Epson Perfection 2400 Problems

2005-08-06 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
The Perfection 2400 is supported by the EPSON backend and not the SNAPSCAN backend. You are using the wrong configuration. On Aug 6, 2005, at 4:48 AM, Paul Smedley wrote: Hi All, Wondering if anyone can suggestion possible reasons for an Epson Perfection 2400 not working on OS/2. Code

[sane-devel] some more libsane.usermap additions

2005-07-30 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
I'll take care of this. Thanks, Karl Heinz On Jul 29, 2005, at 9:55 PM, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: Olaf Meeuwissen o...@member.fsf.org writes: Julien BLACHE j...@jblache.org writes: Olaf Meeuwissen olaf.meeuwis...@avasys.jp wrote: +# Epson Corp.|GT-15000 (ES-7000) +# Epson

[sane-devel] Epson RX600 - can't find

2005-07-02 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
I have one sitting next to my computer, and it works... Try to set the debug environment variable before you run scanimage: export SANE_DEBUG_EPSON=255 scanimage /tmp/scan.log 21 The file /tmp/scan.log will contain information about what the backend is doing. What surprises me is that the

[sane-devel] Epson RX600 - can't find

2005-07-02 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
Remove everything but the one line that says epson (you may want to rename the original file and create a new one with just this one line), then run the test with the DEBUG variable again. From what you've posted so far it's clear that the EPSON backend never gets called. There usually is

[sane-devel] sanei_pio

2005-05-12 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
Toby, never ask if somebody wants to see patches, just send them :-) Karl Heinz On May 11, 2005, at 4:13 PM, Toby Dickenson wrote: Ive been using an Epson GT-5000 with sane successfully for a few years now, and recently Ive tracked down a couple of annoying characteristics to

[sane-devel] Hardware test report(Epson)

2005-04-01 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
Thanks for the information. I'll add it to the list with my next CVS checkin. Karl Heinz On Apr 1, 2005, at 4:49 PM, Sean Bruno wrote: My wife picked up a cheapy Epson MFP(model Stylus CX4600) recently and it appears to work just find with sane if I put the USB ID in epson.conf. USBID:

[sane-devel] modify scan area, how?

2005-01-23 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
No, this is limited by the scanner. On Jan 23, 2005, at 3:45 AM, Harald Finster wrote: Karl Heinz Kremer wrote: Harald, the max. possible scan area depends on the resolution and the bit depth. The scanner does not allow to set a scan area that's larger than the max. possible area

[sane-devel] modify scan area, how?

2005-01-22 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
Harald, the max. possible scan area depends on the resolution and the bit depth. The scanner does not allow to set a scan area that's larger than the max. possible area. Karl Heinz On Jan 22, 2005, at 2:19 PM, Harald Finster wrote: Dear sane developers, is there a way to define a

[sane-devel] Epson perfection 4870 - gamma and brightness in 16bit mode

2005-01-17 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
Richard, the Perfection 4870 does not have an exposure setting, and only supports 8bit Gamma tables. I suspect that you see the combined gamma applied by the scanner and xsane, whereas scanimage only gives you access to the scanners gamma setting. Have you tried xscanimage? Karl Heinz On

[sane-devel] sheet feed typo in SANE SPEC?

2005-01-15 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
I admit that I'm a little late adding a reply to this thread :-) Sheetfed is a term that's used a lot in the printing industry: The=20 offset world uses sheetfed and web presses. It's also used (and has been for quite some=20 time) for scanners. For terms like this, a general purpose dictionary

[sane-devel] DIN-A3 Scanners supported by SANE

2005-01-03 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
On Jan 3, 2005, at 4:23 PM, Andreas Piening wrote: Hi Rene, hi Karl Heinz, [ ... ] The Other thing is: Which interface to choose? I need to engineer the fastest solution possible, so I think SCSI is the fastest, am I right? Is the sane-backend so abstract that it can handle the scanner at

[sane-devel] DIN-A3 Scanners supported by SANE

2005-01-02 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
have this unit, it would be a waste as it is so useful in a professional environment. Thank you again, Andreas Piening Am Samstag, den 01.01.2005, 10:20 -0500 schrieb Karl Heinz Kremer: The EPSON GT-3 is supported and works quite well. It's not cheap, but it's also built a lot sturdier

[sane-devel] DIN-A3 Scanners supported by SANE

2005-01-01 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
The EPSON GT-3 is supported and works quite well. It's not cheap, but it's also built a lot sturdier than your average desktop scanner. Karl Heinz On Jan 1, 2005, at 10:02 AM, Andreas Piening wrote: Hi, I need to develop a linux-based copier-scanner solution for a library. For this

[sane-devel] epson 2400 photo: scanimage -L error

2004-12-30 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
As Henning already suggested, try it as root user. Chances are that=20 your hotplug system is not setting the permissions on the device file=20 correctly. Also, make sure that you have this line in your epson.conf file: usb Make sure that you only have one Sane installation on your system. On

[sane-devel] Epson RX500 1200+ dpi Out of memory

2004-12-30 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
Yes, but not when you select a scanning area that's too large. The out of memory condition is in the scanner. Why are you scanning with 1200 dpi and more? This is usually only necessary for negatives or slides. For standard scans of e.g. photos or documents, it's usually not necessary to go

[sane-devel] Device IDs for Epson MF devices

2004-12-20 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
then chaning the scan area to the correct values). So, at least for the EPSON backend, what you're asking for is already implemented (and documented in the man page). Karl Heinz Johannes Meixner said: Hello, On Dec 17 20:20 Karl Heinz Kremer wrote (shortened): Thanks, I'll add the CX-3650

[sane-devel] Device IDs for Epson MF devices

2004-12-17 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
Thanks, I'll add the CX-3650, the 6400 is already supported. On Dec 17, 2004, at 9:11 PM, Till Kamppeter wrote: Oi, here are some device IDs, both are MF devices which work with the epson backend: epson cx 6400: 0x04b8 0x0805 epson cx 3650: 0x04b8 0x080e Till -- sane-devel

[sane-devel] Support of TPU of Epson Perfection 1650 Photo?

2004-11-22 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
I've CCed the sane-devel list. The EPSON software knows where the individual images/slides are, and can take the scan of a whole strip of film, or of several slides and cut it into individual images. The Sane frontends work with too many different backends, so that it's not possible, or very

[sane-devel] Support of TPU of Epson Perfection 1650 Photo?

2004-11-21 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
It should work. What problems are you experiencing? On Nov 20, 2004, at 2:32 PM, Thomas Rottmann wrote: Will the TPU (transparent unit) of the Epson Perfection 1650 Photo be supported in future? If yes, when probably? Thomas Rottmann thomas.rottm...@web.de -- sane-devel mailing list:

[sane-devel] My Epson Perfection 636 (SCSI) no longer works?

2004-11-07 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
So it's not that the scanner all of a sudden did stop to work, you did=20= change the configuration of your system? Recompiling the kernel=20 certainly qualifies for this. What is /dev/scanner linked to? (Does not really play a role if you get=20= the same behavor with scsi EPSON, but if you

[sane-devel] My Epson Perfection 636 (SCSI) no longer works?

2004-11-07 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
=E8re wrote: On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 11:36:48AM -0500, Karl Heinz Kremer wrote: So it's not that the scanner all of a sudden did stop to work, you = did change the configuration of your system? Recompiling the kernel certainly qualifies for this. I haven't used my scanner for a while, possibly

[sane-devel] My Epson Perfection 636 (SCSI) no longer works?

2004-11-06 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
On Nov 6, 2004, at 8:07 AM, Fr=E9d=E9ric Bri=E8re wrote: On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 07:44:35AM -0500, Karl Heinz Kremer wrote: You have two epson.conf files on your system: The one in /etc/snae.d/epson.conf, which you grepped, and then one that is used=20= by the software, which does not have

[sane-devel] My Epson Perfection 636 (SCSI) no longer works?

2004-11-06 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
You have two epson.conf files on your system: The one in=20 /etc/snae.d/epson.conf, which you grepped, and then one that is used by=20= the software, which does not have the line scsi EPSON. This my be the=20= source of your problems. Can you scan as root user? On Nov 6, 2004, at 6:21 AM,

[sane-devel] I have the Epson Perfection 2480 and 2580 for testing

2004-10-18 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
You can download them from EPSON's web site: http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/support/supDetail.jsp? BV_UseBVCookie=yesoid=41623infoType=Overview http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/support/supDetail.jsp? BV_UseBVCookie=yesoid=41624infoType=Overview On Oct 18, 2004, at 2:29 PM, Till Kamppeter

[sane-devel] Xsane Crashes with Epson 4180 Scanner

2004-10-14 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
It looks like this scanner does not speak the ESC/I protocol. At least not any flavor that the EPSON backend supports. Maybe Olaf can shed some light on this. Karl Heinz On Oct 14, 2004, at 7:30 PM, Matt Reuther wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 14 October

[sane-devel] Digital ICE dust removal on Epson 4870

2004-09-27 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
--=20 sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject unsubscribe your_password to sane-devel-requ...@lists.alioth.debian.org --=20 Karl Heinz Kremer

[sane-devel] Re: Re: Sane problem with ADF on Epson Perfection 1640SU

2004-09-26 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
Thanks. I'll start to compare the two releases. There where a number of changes to make other scanners with ADFs work, and I guess something broke the 1640. Karl Heinz On Sep 26, 2004, at 9:47 AM, Terje J. Hanssen wrote: I can now confirm that also I have succeeded (at last!) to get my

[sane-devel] EPSON RX 500 USB multi-function device NOW WORKS!!!

2004-09-26 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
Can you scan as root? What Linux distribution are you using? On Sep 26, 2004, at 8:18 AM, Simone Tolotti wrote: I've tried this too... But if I update all sane-backends my scanner isn't recognized yetI dunno why!!! Alle 11:49, domenica 26 settembre 2004, Scott ha scritto:

[sane-devel] focus for CS-frames

2004-09-26 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
The Pefection 2400 does not support the focus setting, this means that regardless of how you set the focus, the image will always be the same. Karl Heinz On Sep 26, 2004, at 1:49 PM, Dietrich Jahn wrote: I'm using the 'Epson Perfection 2400 Photo' with TAME/2 on OS/2 for scanning slides

[sane-devel] libusb scanner not found

2004-09-20 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
On Sep 20, 2004, at 12:03 PM, Dan Christian (by way of Dan Christian robo...@idiom.com) (by way of Dan Christian robo...@idiom.com) wrote: This used to work (under FC1/2.4), but no longer does under Fedora Core 2 (Linux 2.6). I'm running sane-backends-1.0.14-3 on an Athlon (single

[sane-devel] Epson 1650 doesn't work with Fedora Core 2

2004-09-12 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
Because you were using the epkowa backend and not the Epson backend. Karl Heinz On Sep 9, 2004, at 10:56 PM, Glen R. Salo wrote: Thanks for everyone's help. My scanner is now working. I don't know why, but sane was using the file /etc/sane.d/epkowa.conf. Once I added the line: usb

[sane-devel] USBDEVFS_BULK failed errors - Epson Perfection 2400 Photo

2004-09-08 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
David, I don't think that this is a Sane problem, the message you get is from the USB system. If you have more USB ports on your system, try a different port, if you have the scanner connected via a hub, try to connect the scanner directly. Try a different USB cable. If you have access to a USB

[sane-devel] Epson 1650 doesn't work with Fedora Core 2

2004-09-08 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
Please try to capture a log file when you run scanimage: export SANE_DEBUG_EPSON=128 scanimage /tmp/scan.log 21 Then attach the file /tmp/scan.log to an email. Thanks, Karl Heinz On Sep 6, 2004, at 9:15 PM, Glen R. Salo wrote: I have been unable to get my Epson 1650 to work with Fedora

[sane-devel] Is USB 2 for Epson scanners really only for factory installedWindows 2000/XP?

2004-08-26 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
Steven, as long as you have drivers for your USB2 controller (ehci), the scanner will work with the USB2 speed. If you don't have the driver configured/installed (or dont' have a USB2 controller), the scanner will communicate with USB1.1. Karl Heinz Steven P. Ulrick said: Hello, Everyone :) I

[sane-devel] Epson Perfetion 2480 scanner

2004-08-22 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
I don't know anything about this scanner, which means that I also don't know if the scanner is supported by the EPSON backend, or uses a different design that may fall into the same category as the 3170, 1670, 1260, 1270 or 660. You can find out if it's supported by the EPSON backend by adding

[sane-devel] reverse compatibility list?

2004-08-21 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
I can at least tell you that EPSON supports the Sane development, and you can also get a (not completely free) frontend from EPSON KOWA. Karl Heinz On Aug 13, 2004, at 9:58 AM, Nathaniel Taylor wrote: I want to buy a scanner, and of course to run it only under linux or *bsd systems.The

Fwd: [sane-devel] use of ICC profiles

2004-07-08 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
This reply was meant to go to the list as well: Begin forwarded message: From: Karl Heinz Kremer k...@khk.net Date: July 7, 2004 8:41:12 PM EDT To: Peter Mark Guevarra pmsgueva...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [sane-devel] use of ICC profiles Like so many great questions, your question can only

[sane-devel] xscanimage font problem

2004-07-08 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
It may also help if you run this command before you start xscanimage: export LANG=en_US.iso-8859-1 You need to run this in the same terminal in which you also start xscanimage. Karl Heinz On Jul 3, 2004, at 5:01 AM, Julien BLACHE wrote: Gene Stemple gen...@vtc.net wrote: Hi, bad news

[sane-devel] please help w/Epson 636U and Panther

2004-07-07 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
I'm about to receive a Perfection 636S, which uses the same command set as the 636U. This means that I can (for the first time) actually debug this problem myself. I can assure you that this problem will be fixed in a few weeks. Karl Heinz On Jul 4, 2004, at 4:03 PM, Julien BLACHE wrote:

[sane-devel] Epson backend fix wrt USB IDs for Perfection 1250 and 1260

2004-06-13 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
Thanks. Looks like I picked the wrong line. I added the 1650 back in and finally removed the 1250. On Jun 13, 2004, at 7:47 AM, Julien BLACHE wrote: Hi, It seems the fix that went in regarding the USB IDs for Perfection 1250 and 1260 erroneously removed the USB IDs for the Perfection 1650

[sane-devel] Timeouts: usb_reset seems necessary to avoid bulk timeouts.

2004-06-10 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
I'm also reading sane-devel, so no need to take a detour with any Epson backend related information :-) I've never experienced any of the problem you describe, and I've been running a 2.6.x kernel for some time now (SuSE 9.1 beta versions and the final SuSE 9.1). I've tried this with two

[sane-devel] sane-backends 1.0.14 and Epson Perfection 1250 and 1260 trouble

2004-06-06 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
I just left my comments in the bug report. The Epson backend does not have information about these scanners (this means no product ID), so they should not be recognized and therefore the backend should not try to send any data. The only way this would happen is, if somebody explicitly uses the

[sane-devel] sane-backends 1.0.14 and Epson Perfection 1250 and 1260 trouble

2004-06-06 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
--sm4nu43k4a2Rpi4c Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 03:58:01PM +0200, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: Hi, =20 On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 09:25:29AM -0400, Karl Heinz Kremer wrote: The Epson

[sane-devel] Epson Perfection 2400 Photo scanner problems

2004-05-26 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
You may want to ask this question in the libusb-devel mailing list (libusb-de...@lists.sourceforge.net) On May 26, 2004, at 4:02 PM, br...@biology.nmsu.edu wrote: Olaf Meeuwissen writes: From your debugging output it looks like there is nothing wrong with your USB setup but I'm not very

[sane-devel] Epson Perfection 1650 -- cranks

2004-05-26 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
There is no command that would reset (or not reset) the sensor assembly, this is all done automatically: The backend sends a scan command, and the scanner performs all other steps automatically. Do you still have the old kernel around? Does the scanner still work w/out any problems if you run

[sane-devel] Epson is found , but not

2004-05-21 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
Do you have one line containing just usb in your epson.conf file? Is the epson backend enabled in dll.conf? On May 21, 2004, at 5:41 AM, Fritz Lang wrote: OSX Panther beige G3 as these Terminal commands and responses show. What to try next? setenv PATH ${PATH}:/usr/local/bin scanimage

[sane-devel] Epson CX3100 printer scanner copier problems? scanner cannot be detected!

2004-05-09 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
Which version of Sane are you running? You may need to upgrade Sane so that libusb support is working (the fact that the usb 0x4b8 0x802 in the config file is not working implies that your version of Sane does not support libusb yet). The problem with these multi functional devices is that the

[sane-devel] SANE w/OmniPage Pro X and OSX.2.6

2004-05-04 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
with Karl Heinz Kremer and he has given me info on how to edit the backend for my Epson 636U scanner. I did it. I'm not conversant with Terminal. In any case, I'd like to use OmniPage Pro X under OSX.2.6 to use my Epson scanner without starting up Classic. This is the command pico /usr/local

[sane-devel] Epson perfection 2400 incorrectly recognized

2004-05-01 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
This is correct, the Perfection is just printed on the box the scanner came in and on the scanner itself. Internally it only knows it's official name (which also is the name it's marketed under in Japan). You can find this information in the last question in my FAQ:=20

[sane-devel] backends-1.0.14 scsi epson

2004-05-01 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
On May 1, 2004, at 3:37 PM, Klaus Dittrich wrote: Klaus Dittrich wrote: abel deuring wrote: sorry Klaus, I should have had a closer look into your other mail containing the debug output. abel deuring wrote: Klaus Dittrich wrote: [...] Starting with backend-1.0.13 the sanei_scsi

[sane-devel] A question on epson scanners and function levels

2004-04-24 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
Perfection 636, Perfection 1200 - B7 Perfection 1640 - B8 On Apr 24, 2004, at 1:19 PM, Varol Kaptan wrote: Does anybody know what are the function levels the different models of scanners supported by the epson backend? I know that Perfection 610 is D1 (I own one). I am interested in

[sane-devel] Which scanner for doing good OCR under Linux ?

2004-03-30 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
I suspect that pretty much any scanner will work for this purpose. OCR usually works best with monochrome or grayscale data, so any scanner that can scan in these modes with e.g. 300dpi will work. I only have first-hand experience with EPSON scanners and OCR, and all I can say is that the scanner

Fwd: [sane-devel] SANE SCSI EPSON problem

2004-03-05 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
Begin forwarded message: From: Karl Heinz Kremer k...@khk.net Date: March 5, 2004 6:23:05 PM EST To: Philippe PEZET ppe...@normandnet.fr Subject: Re: [sane-devel] SANE SCSI EPSON problem It probably is a result of the out of memory error. This error is caused by a failed malloc call. How

[sane-devel] SANE SCSI EPSON problem]

2004-03-05 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
This does not sounds like a lot of memory. I really have no idea how much Sane needs. How good are you with the compiler? If you think you can modify the source code, go to line 5688 and add some code before the malloc that fails. Try to malloc memory until you can no longer get more

[sane-devel] Re: scanner not recognised part II

2004-02-29 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
Heinz Kremer a =E9crit : This looks more and more like a SCSI problem. Try the following: export SANE_DEBUG_SANEI_SCSI=3D3 scanimage -L Please provide the output. sane_debug3.txt=

[sane-devel] Problems with libusb and Snapscan 1236U (maybe similar to others)

2004-02-29 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
On Feb 29, 2004, at 6:47 AM, Julien BLACHE wrote: [ ... ] I tend to think the problem is limited to the snapscan backend, as I've seen quite a number of people on IRC using other backends with libusb and either a 2.4 or 2.6 kernel without problem. Might a general libusb problem too, that

[sane-devel] automatic libusb permissions for USB scanners using hotplug

2004-02-29 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
... and it has already been documented more than a year ago :-) (http://www.khk.net/sane/libusb.html) But it never hurts to have more documentation. On Feb 29, 2004, at 2:59 PM, Bertrik Sikken wrote: Bertrik Sikken wrote: Hi all, Triggered by some of the discussions about libusb earlier

[sane-devel] Re: scanner not recognised part II

2004-02-29 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
before checking, as far as I remember, this=20 question used to appear only the first time sane was launched, so is it=20 possible that he fails to find/make his configuration file ? Le Dimanche 29 F=E9vrier 2004 12:53, Karl Heinz Kremer a =E9crit : If you have a file named /dev/scanner, please

[sane-devel] Re: scanner not recognised part IIHello again,

2004-02-29 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
for the AHA-2920) seems to be there at least at boot time, I suppose. What's next ? Thank you again for your help, I'm beginning to feel more at ease in=20= linux. PF Le Dimanche 29 F=E9vrier 2004 21:11, Karl Heinz Kremer a =E9crit : The CD-R shows up as SCSI device because the CD burning

[sane-devel] Re: scanner not recognised part IIHello again,

2004-02-29 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
if the scanner stays=20 dumb. PF Le Dimanche 29 F=E9vrier 2004 23:29, Karl Heinz Kremer a =E9crit : I'm really out of ideas ... Even though the device is recognized at boot time, it's not available when you try to scan. You can rescan your SCSI bus to detect new (or in this case old

[sane-devel] scanner not recognised

2004-02-28 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
You don't have to reinstall Fedora. Just go to the package manager and select Sane again. It will then automatically make sure that all necessary packages are installed. Karl Heinz PS: Please remember to CC the mailing list. On Feb 28, 2004, at 4:31 AM, Paul Frisson wrote: OK, tried to

[sane-devel] Re: scanner not recognised part II

2004-02-28 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
Have you modified dll.conf as I suggested in one of my previous replies? Karl Heinz On Feb 28, 2004, at 6:28 AM, Paul Frisson wrote: Hello, As I said in former message, I reinstalled the whole fedora, and yes ! the wireless is still working :-) Now that I am sure I have a 'virginal'

[sane-devel] Re: scanner not recognised part II

2004-02-28 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
Try to set the debug variable for the DLL backend: export SANE_DEBUG_DLL=3D3 Then run xsane again. What output do you get? On Feb 28, 2004, at 7:13 AM, Paul Frisson wrote: There wan no # before epson PF Le Samedi 28 F=E9vrier 2004 13:05, Karl Heinz Kremer a =E9crit : Have you modified

[sane-devel] Re: scanner not recognised part II

2004-02-28 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
Le Samedi 28 F=E9vrier 2004 13:23, Karl Heinz Kremer a =E9crit : Try to set the debug variable for the DLL backend: export SANE_DEBUG_DLL=3D3 Then run xsane again. What output do you get? sane_debug.txt=

[sane-devel] Re: scanner not recognised part II

2004-02-28 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
Now we are getting somewhere... Is it still not possible to scan as=20 root user? On Feb 28, 2004, at 8:04 AM, Paul Frisson wrote: here is the printed text Le Samedi 28 F=E9vrier 2004 13:56, Karl Heinz Kremer a =E9crit : The backend gets initialized correctly, so you should find debug=20

[sane-devel] Re: scanner not recognised part II

2004-02-28 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
:-( PF Le Samedi 28 F=E9vrier 2004 14:15, Karl Heinz Kremer a =E9crit : Now we are getting somewhere... Is it still not possible to scan as root user? On Feb 28, 2004, at 8:04 AM, Paul Frisson wrote: here is the printed text Le Samedi 28 F=E9vrier 2004 13:56, Karl Heinz Kremer a =E9crit

[sane-devel] Re: scanner not recognised part II

2004-02-28 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
(autoclean) scsi_mod 108168 3 [sg sr_mod ide-scsi] Le Samedi 28 F=E9vrier 2004 14:51, Karl Heinz Kremer a =E9crit : Do you have the sg module loaded? This is required for SCSI scanners. Please run this command: cat /proc/modules | grep sg Does this print a line that starts with sg?

[sane-devel] scanner not recognised

2004-02-27 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
Fedora is very similar to RedHat 9, so this should not cause any=20 problems. I cannot help you with the HP device, but I can probably help you to get the EPSON scanner to work again. The most common problem for SCSI scanners is that the permissions on the /dev/sg? device are not correct. An

[sane-devel] scanner not recognised

2004-02-27 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
I'm CC'ing my answer to the mailing list. Please do reply all, or reply list, or whatever the function is called in your mailer the next time you answer. Thanks. How many Sane installations do you have on your system? When you upgraded to 1.0.13, did you do an RPM upgrade (rpm -U sane-*.rpm),

[sane-devel] scanner not recognised

2004-02-27 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
All the packages that are listed are part of an older Sane version. You could try to uninstall these files by running rpm -e sane-frontends (and similar commands for the other packages). You may need the hpoj package (I don't know anything about HP scanners, so I don't know where this package

Fwd: [sane-devel] Problem with Epslon 1650 + Kernel 2.4.3: no lamp off

2004-02-23 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
Wrong key... this should have gone to the mailing list as well: Begin forwarded message: From: Karl Heinz Kremer k...@khk.net Date: February 23, 2004 7:31:33 PM EST To: Martin Weinberg mdweinb...@comcast.net Subject: Re: [sane-devel] Problem with Epslon 1650 + Kernel 2.4.3: no lamp off

[sane-devel] Problem with Epslon 1650 + Kernel 2.4.3: no lamp off

2004-02-23 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
since it is unclaimed? On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 07:32:34PM -0500, Karl Heinz Kremer wrote: Wrong key... this should have gone to the mailing list as well: Begin forwarded message: From: Karl Heinz Kremer k...@khk.net Date: February 23, 2004 7:31:33 PM EST To: Martin Weinberg mdweinb

[sane-devel] epson perfection 1200 SCSI not scanning via TWAIN

2004-02-12 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
Is this on a Mac? On Feb 11, 2004, at 5:05 PM, Michael C. Haller wrote: Hello, from the command-line everything seems to work fine: sane-find-scanner # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that # you have loaded a SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.

[sane-devel] gamma correction procedure

2004-02-09 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
On Feb 9, 2004, at 12:32 PM, Christopher Marshall wrote: --- abel deuring adeur...@gmx.net wrote: Christopher, this way, you measure (and correct to some extent) the colour deviations of the *entire chain* image colour values - printed colour - scanned colour. But both '-', i.e. each

[sane-devel] gamma correction procedure

2004-02-09 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
On Feb 9, 2004, at 2:56 PM, abel deuring wrote: Christopher, I see what you (and Gerard) are saying now. Assuming I used an IT8 target to calibrate my scanner, could I then use the procedure I outlined to calibrate my printer? Or I am still not getting everything you are saying? In

[sane-devel] how should you determine a good gamma correction to use through the backend?

2004-02-08 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
On Feb 8, 2004, at 6:59 PM, gerard klaver wrote: On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 20:07, Christopher Marshall wrote: [ ... ] Has anyone ever done this? Chris Marshall Calibration your scanner with a scanner calibration target see for example http://www.targets.coloraid.de/ Example for profiler

[sane-devel] how should you determine a good gamma correction to use through the backend?

2004-02-08 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
On Feb 8, 2004, at 6:01 PM, Christopher Marshall wrote: Karl: Well, I suppose I was thinking of doing a scan with a correction of 0 (the default I believe), calculating a value of k, and using that value in further scans. Are you suggesting a iterative approach, where you start out

[sane-devel] Canon LIDE 20 or LIDE 30 or EPSON 1660 P

2004-01-19 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
I don't know where you looked, but the Perfection 1660 is listed here : http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#EPSON :-) The Photo extension does not make a difference, and I'm not even sure if you can buy the scanner without the Photo designation. And yes, it's supported. Karl Heinz On

[sane-devel] re epson perfection 1200 problems libusb kernel 2.6.1-rc1

2004-01-17 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
On Jan 17, 2004, at 6:33 AM, Klaus Dittrich wrote: [ ... ] I tested backends-1.0.12 with libusb and it may damage the mechanics of your epson-scanner. It's actually very unlikely that you will damage your scanner if you have a real EPSON scanner (that is one that is natively supported by the

[sane-devel] linux-2.6.1-smp,usb,oops,sane-backends-1.0.13,epson-1640

2004-01-15 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
If you want to try libusb, I have a page that describes the steps necessary to get it configured: http://khk.net/sane/libusb.html On Jan 15, 2004, at 4:30 PM, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: Hi, On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 10:19:49PM +0100, Klaus Dittrich wrote: Does using libusb instead work for

[sane-devel] Wanted Linux scanner...

2004-01-13 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
The EPSON Perfection 3200, 2450 and 2400 are fully supported by the EPSON backend. Other scanners are supported by e.g. the snapscan or the plusteck backend, but I cannot comment on how good they work (I don't have access to any of these). The EPSON KOWA IScan software (available at

[sane-devel] Epson GT-7400U not detected

2003-12-30 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
The scanner uses three USB pipes: Two bulk pipes for input and output and one interrupt pipe. This means it's not a standard EPSON scanner (meaning that it cannot be supported by the EPSON backend). I don't know this device, it seems to be a new scanner. Maybe Olaf can shed some light on this.

[sane-devel] [Fwd: Re: [lp.epson] Epson CX5400]

2003-12-15 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
If you use the usb 0x4b8 0x808 syntax in epson.conf, it is not necessary to add the vendor and product IDs as modules parameters. libusb will take care of talking to the scanner. The USB scanner module is not necessary. Karl Heinz On Dec 15, 2003, at 2:21 PM, Till Kamppeter wrote: Here is a

[sane-devel] Epson Perfection 2400 on RH 9

2003-12-14 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
? The strange thing is that I've seen a number of problem reports lately with Red Hat 9. Is it possible that RH did something wrong with their distribution? Karl Heinz On Dec 14, 2003, at 2:28 PM, s...@vikas.mailshell.com wrote: From Karl Heinz Kremer k...@khk.net on 14 Dec 2003: Does the device file

[sane-devel] Sugg: frontend to scan and append to pdf

2003-12-14 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
On Dec 12, 2003, at 10:13 AM, Jonathan Buzzard wrote: [ ... ] The trick is not to finalise the PDF (i.e. write out the XREF table) till you are done adding the pages. Something of a limitation, but one that most people could live with in at least the short to medium term. Something like the

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