[sane-devel] Re: [PATCH] generate hal fdi file

2007-03-21 Thread Martin Owens
> with HAL and I don't blame you for not being :-) Have you checked out some of the interesting comments made in the past? Will this patch provide a way for programs using HAL to call standard methods such as scan or will it be assumed that the app will continue to call sane directly? >> what is

[sane-devel] SANE2, time for a decision

2007-01-07 Thread Martin Owens
stop pissing in the wind. To conclude: Do what you have to, ignore the ego and the egocentrics. Kind Regards, Martin Owens On 07/01/07, Skorous wrote: > I think he meant that a small group of invested and motivated people > would be able to make a lot faster progress rather than having

[sane-devel] Sane and HAL

2007-01-06 Thread Martin Owens
Where you have more than one model that has the same usb model and manufacturer keys you should set the hal key to 'multiple' or some kind of special key which tells it that it's not decided and could be one of many things. it's important because it gives the user or client software the choice of s

[sane-devel] SANE2 commitment

2006-12-19 Thread Martin Owens
> > > > You can then change your clients to use hal and simply call dbus > > commands to scan etc. > [...] > > That would be really nice. I wonder if this will only work on linux. > What about *BSD, Solaris and Windows? I don't know about solaris, I know hal is being used in a number of linux dist

[sane-devel] SANE2 commitment

2006-12-18 Thread Martin Owens
bsd, I suspect that this is exactly the same reason gutten print is having device problems too, but at least they have better device code. On 12/18/06, Gerhard Jaeger wrote: > On Sunday 17 December 2006 22:47, Martin Owens wrote: > > Thanks for the link, > > > > See it sounds lik

[sane-devel] SANE2 commitment

2006-12-17 Thread Martin Owens
Thanks for the link, See it sounds like you want to make the same mistakes, instead of looking for a better way to organise scanning in linux your looking at how to better organise functionality in sane. The problem is that the way scanning is organised is crack-pot and out dated. we are duplicat

[sane-devel] SANE2 commitment

2006-12-17 Thread Martin Owens
My point of view is that it is better to identify the problems you wish to solve my creating a new version of sane that the current version of sane can not be developed into. The first problem I've noted with sane is that it is a little bit all mixed up, detection mixed with scaning, paraport mixe

[sane-devel] OCR

2006-11-07 Thread Martin Owens
You could try to get Tesseract working with sane. On 11/6/06, Tom Miller wrote: > I am trying to integrate an OCR into a SANE front end GUI. > Doesn't any one know of a OCR packages that will work well > with SANE's results? Any suguestion and samples of the > suguestion will be greatly appreci

[sane-devel] Epson Perfection V10 working

2006-11-05 Thread Martin Owens
Sane will only incorperate open source drivers, unless ava are willing to release their code under the gpl I don't think there is a lot we can do. On 11/5/06, Bert Scholz wrote: > Hi, > > I have just bought the scanner "Epson perfection V10" and installed it with > the rpm-packages available at

[sane-devel] Firmware and Driver Downloads

2006-10-24 Thread Martin Owens
for the CDs or go online to fetch the files. Best Regards, Martin Owens

[sane-devel] unsupported device info correction

2006-10-02 Thread Martin Owens
> > Did you check if the gt68xx backend has any support? > > http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/gt68xx-backend/ > > The GT-6816 chip is supported by the gt68xx backend > -- I can't wait for my dohickey hal project to finally provide the information required to the gt68xx backend to facilitate automa

[sane-devel] Sane 1.0.18 and Ubuntu PIXMA problems

2006-09-05 Thread Martin Owens
the pixma drivers which is incompatible? Best Regards, Martin Owens -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/attachments/20060905/d480b050/attachment.html From ger...@gkall.hobby.nl Tue Sep 5 17:14:47

[sane-devel] Can't get Canon MP360 working

2006-08-22 Thread Martin Owens
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[sane-devel] Working on Canon MP360

2006-08-06 Thread Martin Owens
Just so everyone knows, I going to attempt to create a sane back end for the Canon MP360. let me know if you know anything or if there are others interested in this development. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http

[sane-devel] Snaccer Development

2006-07-25 Thread Martin Owens
ogram the required sane drivers for this device? Best Regards, Martin Owens