[sane-devel] sane-devel moved to lists.alioth.debian.org

2003-09-18 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Thomas Soumarmon] > What I would like, is to be able to post with several adresses > (mainly 2) and receive only once the mails from the mailing list. This is easy. Just subscribe with all the addresses, and turn off email delivery to the ones you only want to post from.

[sane-devel] Re: SANE CVS Server down?

2002-12-14 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Petter Reinholdtsen] > Yes, it is down. I've reported the problem to the people with > physical access to the machine, and hope someone will fix it soon. The power supply is broken. We are working on a replacement.

[sane-devel] Re: SANE CVS Server down?

2002-12-11 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Oliver Rauch] > Hello Petter, > > I think the SANE CVS server is down - at least I can not contact it. Yes, it is down. I've reported the problem to the people with physical access to the machine, and hope someone will fix it soon. This is not only blocking SANE development, it is blocking my

[sane-devel] Re: cvs.hungry.com down

2002-11-17 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Henning Meier-Geinitz] > Hi, > > SANE CVS seems to be down: Yes it did. It should be better now. Thanks for letting me know. :-) Sorry for the unstable service. I wish the power supply in California would start working properly. :(

[sane-devel] Re: dc240 only works with GCC

2002-10-14 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Peter Fales] > The new code seems to work OK, but I don't think it's a good idea to > submit it just before the 1.0.9 code freeze. I'll commit the CVS > changes to the next release. Then you will need to fix configure.in to skip this backend on all non-gcc, non-little endian platforms to avoid c

[sane-devel] dc240 only works with GCC

2002-10-11 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
I just discovered this code when trying to find out why the CVS version of sane-backends fail to compile on HP/UX using the native compiler. #ifdef __GNUC__ #define UNUSEDARG __attribute__ ((unused)) #define PACKED__attribute__ ((packed)) #else #define UNUSEDARG /* You need to figu

[sane-devel] (patch) Small fixes for canon630u, coolscan and microtek2

2002-10-08 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Frank Zago] > That's definitively a bug to fix. However you're creating and setting > a variable. But you're not using it! Right. I guess I forgot one line when I copied the patch into my CVS tree. Sorry for the confusion. :-)

[sane-devel] Re: cvs.hungry.com down?

2002-10-07 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Henning Meier-Geinitz] > is it only me or is cvs.hungry.com (used as the SANE CVS server) down? It is not you. The power went out again. It was fixed later that day. And this time, I remembered to fix the clock.

[sane-devel] Proposal: SANE standard additions/fixes

2002-10-07 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Henning Meier-Geinitz] > As I haven't gotten any response there won't be any change/fix to > the SANE standard for these issues. Nobody seems to be interested in > them so we will keep the current undefined state of some > functions/return statuses. Well, I haven't repsponded because I did not di

[sane-devel] (patch) Small fixes for canon630u, coolscan and microtek2

2002-10-04 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Frank Zago] > What's the point of this one? If sizeof(size_t) is bigger then sizeof(u_int32_t), than the call to sanei_scsi_cmd() will write outside the space allocated for ms->n_control_bytes. If it is smaller, the value in ms->n_control_bytes will be wrong. It only work as it should if size_t

[sane-devel] (patch) Small fixes for canon630u, coolscan and microtek2

2002-10-04 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
:15 1.1200 +++ ChangeLog 2002/10/04 13:43:38 @@ -1,3 +1,16 @@ +2002-10-04 Petter Reinholdtsen + + * backend/canon630u-common.c: Change type of size parameter from + 'unsigned int' to 'size_t' for gl640WriteBulk() and + gl640ReadBulk() to avoid cras

[sane-devel] Re: CVS lock in SANE cvs?

2002-08-14 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Henning Meier-Geinitz] > Hi, > > I can't commit changes to SANE CVS currently: > > cvs server: [09:06:47] waiting for cvs's lock in > /cvsroot/external/sane/sane-backends > [and so on] Hm, can it be the '#cvs*' one: % cd /cvsroot/external/sane/sane-backends % ls -l total 7594 -rw-rw-rw- 1 c

[sane-devel] CVS problems?

2002-07-22 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Sorry for my late reply. I've been on vacation. [Jaeger, Gerhard] > The problem does not seem to disappear :-(( > How can I access the repository? Any backups? The server was crashed, and needed someone to visit the machine room to reboot it. This took some time, as no one was located nearby.

[sane-devel] CVS problems?

2002-07-10 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Oliver Schwartz] > On Tuesday 09 July 2002 18:15, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > > Hi, > > > > is it only me or is there a problem on cvs.hungry.com? I can't access > > it currently. Ping returns nor answer, also. > > Same here. Better now? There where some problems with terror.hungry.com today

[sane-devel] Check out valgrind

2002-05-22 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Remember a long time ago, when I used Purify to find lots of errors with SANE? Now a similar tool is available for all. Check out valgrind, http://developer.kde.org/~sewardj/>. > Valgrind, an open-source memory debugger for x86-GNU/Linux > > Valgrind is a GPL'd tool to help you find memory-mana

[sane-devel] Strange warning when compiling bh.c on Solaris

2002-04-09 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Hello You are listed as the current maintainer of the coolscan backend in SANE. I tested the current CVS version on Solaris, and got several warnings. I think several of these are plain typos (the semicolon after functions for instance), and severals are just signed/unsigned typos. You should c

[sane-devel] Strange warning when compiling bh.c on Solaris

2002-04-09 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Hello You are listed as the current maintainer of the bh backend in SANE. I tested the current CVS version on Solaris, and got this warning: "../../backend/bh.c", line 1923: warning: end-of-loop code not reached The last line in the for loop is a return statement. This code seemed a bit stra

[sane-devel] Re: qcam: Avoid creating lock file in /tmp/

2002-03-28 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Bill Sebok] > Aren't special privileges required to access the /var/lock directory? Well, as the qcam backend only work on Linux and FreeBSD, and require root privileges to access the hw ioports directly, the fact that it need special privileges to create a lock in /var/lock/ should be of less im

[sane-devel] sane-backends fail to build on Linux/hppa

2002-03-25 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
> Yet another one is on MIPS: This mips problem was just an old config.guess/config.sub. I replaced it and was able to run configure without problems. > Another failed build was on Alpha: > scanimage.c:1564: incompatible type for argument 2 of vprintf' > This is fixed in CVS. The alpha problem

[sane-devel] qcam: Avoid creating lock file in /tmp/

2002-03-24 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Reading debian bug #21983, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=21983> one discover that there might be a security problem creating files in /tmp/. This also is in conflict with the Linux File Hierarcy Standard. I propose the following patch to fix the problem. Anyone against it?

[sane-devel] sane-backends fail to build on Linux/hppa

2002-03-24 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Checking the Debian autobuilder logs, I discovered that sane-backends fail to build on Linux/hppa. The error message seem to be related to the inclusion of . Apparently is missing bug is present and useless. It do not seem like a god idea to use as a fallback. Anyone know how to solve this?

[sane-devel] Re: Suggested change for saned

2001-12-16 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Petter Reinholdtsen] > I came across a two year old bug report in the Debian bug database, > and decided to have a look. Did anyone have a look at my suggested patch for saned.c to this 2 year old bug report? I'm asking, as it might have disappeared into mail heaven while most

[sane-devel] Suggested change for saned

2001-12-01 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
I came across a two year old bug report in the Debian bug database, and decided to have a look. The bug report reads: I tried to use a scanner with the net-device. I have written the FQDN of several hosts in the file saned.conf. But I got no connection. The problem was the FQDN. The hostnam

[sane-devel] Re: heads up: potential network disruption

2001-12-01 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[David Mosberger-Tang] > (The "several" days is due to the fact that it will take a few days > to get the DNS updates propagated if the IP address of mostang.com > changes.) You should reduce the TTL on the DNS entries to reduce this time. Parhaps as low as one hour until you know more.

[sane-devel] Missing CVS commit mails

2001-10-30 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
> Since the mail about the modifications in the hp backend (2001/10/27 > 11:05:41 PDT) I haven't gotten any CVS commit mails. Is it only me > or does anyone else have this problem? The hungry.com mail server had a disk crash after the power went away. Hopefully this start working soon.

[sane-devel] Current CVS writers

2001-10-21 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Wilken Jochen Eisinger Karl Heinz Kremer Kevin Charter Marian Eichholz Matto Marjanovic Oliver Rauch Oliver Schwartz Peter Fales Peter Kirchgessner Petter Reinholdtsen Rene Rebe Simon Munton" Stéphane Voltz Tom Martone

[sane-devel] QuickCam USB support on Linux

2001-09-02 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[slackpat] > Which Quickcam > [...]quickcamexpress yes for v4l compat > quickcamweb yes code next week or so to be posted see > http://qce-ga.sf.net > quickcam-vc also at sourceforge Unfortunately these drivers are not > compatable with sane at the moment b