[sane-devel] Please give me some help to solve the license issues in using sane

2008-06-06 Thread m. allan noah
On 6/6/08, Alessandro Zummo azummo-lists at towertech.it wrote: On Fri, 6 Jun 2008 16:36:39 +0200 Alessandro Zummo azummo-lists at towertech.it wrote: On Fri, 6 Jun 2008 10:26:04 -0400 m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com wrote: no, the GPL is all about derivative works and

[sane-devel] Please give me some help to solve the license issues in using sane

2008-06-06 Thread Alessandro Zummo
On Fri, 6 Jun 2008 11:10:52 -0400 m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com wrote: yes- this seems reasonable, however, this 'program' cannot be derived from existing GPL'd software that does not already have this added permission, because that would change the original program's license without

[sane-devel] Please give me some help to solve the license issues in using sane

2008-06-06 Thread m. allan noah
On 6/6/08, Alessandro Zummo azummo-lists at towertech.it wrote: On Fri, 6 Jun 2008 11:10:52 -0400 m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com wrote: yes- this seems reasonable, however, this 'program' cannot be derived from existing GPL'd software that does not already have this added

[sane-devel] Please give me some help to solve the license issues in using sane

2008-06-06 Thread Daniel Glöckner
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 11:10:52AM -0400, m. allan noah wrote: 3. you can write a partly free backend, that dynamically links to the closed parts, provided that you place a license exception in the free part allowing said linking. you cannot use any code from SANE, other than sane.h and the

[sane-devel] problems with genesys and MD6228

2008-06-06 Thread Werner Holtfreter
Am Mittwoch, 4. Juni 2008 21:09:56 schrieb stef: you can compile and test CVS without installing it system-wide. In a command shell, create a directory then 'cd' to it. First you have to get the sources with (see http://www.sane-project.org/cvs.html): cvs -d:pserver:anonymous at

[sane-devel] problems with genesys and MD6228

2008-06-06 Thread stef
Le Friday 06 June 2008 20:15:36 Werner Holtfreter, vous avez ?crit?: Am Mittwoch, 4. Juni 2008 21:09:56 schrieb stef: you can compile and test CVS without installing it system-wide. In a command shell, create a directory then 'cd' to it. First you have to get the sources with (see

[sane-devel] problems with genesys and MD6228

2008-06-07 Thread Werner Holtfreter
Am Freitag, 6. Juni 2008 21:08:24 schrieb stef: this strange. This could be related to the possible lack of libusb you mention. On distributions, libraries are often split in two packages, one for runtime and another for development. You may have to check you have the 'devel' libusb

[sane-devel] Please give me some help to solve the license issues in using sane

2008-06-07 Thread David Lochrin
Hello, On Thursday 05 June 2008 23:55, Daniel Gl?ckner wrote: Last year Canon released Linux drivers for the MP scanners that require a closed source module. We have never heard of anyone successfully using this driver. On the other hand there is the open source pixma driver that is actively

[sane-devel] fujitsu scanner owners needed

2008-06-07 Thread spammed
On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 09:48 -0400, m. allan noah wrote: In the past few weeks, I have made several updates to the fujitsu sane backend. I don't really have a good list of testers, so I am putting out a call for all fujitsu backend users to please try the current version from SANE CVS. I

[sane-devel] Please give me some help to solve the license issues in using sane

2008-06-07 Thread Nicolas
On Thursday 05 June 2008 23:55, Daniel Gl?ckner wrote: Last year Canon released Linux drivers for the MP scanners that require a closed source module. We have never heard of anyone successfully using this driver. On the other hand there is the open source pixma driver that is actively

[sane-devel] fujitsu scanner owners needed

2008-06-07 Thread m. allan noah
On 6/7/08, spammed spammed at get2net.dk wrote: On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 09:48 -0400, m. allan noah wrote: In the past few weeks, I have made several updates to the fujitsu sane backend. I don't really have a good list of testers, so I am putting out a call for all fujitsu backend users to

[sane-devel] fujitsu scanner owners needed

2008-06-08 Thread spammed
On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 22:09 -0400, m. allan noah wrote: JPEG output works fine. I?s the compression done by the scanner or the backend? the scanner itself. it appears that every fi-series Fujitsu might be able to do this. When I was on windows I noticed that the jpeg quality was

[sane-devel] Please give me some help to solve the license issues in using sane

2008-06-08 Thread David Lochrin
On Sunday 08 June 2008 04:18, Nicolas wrote: A bit of clarification: Canon released a packaged frontend+backend named scangearmp. This program works fine as a whole, independently from SANE, with a few pixma models only. Among this package, there are some files named libsane-canon_mfp.* ,

[sane-devel] Please give me some help to solve the license issues in using sane

2008-06-08 Thread m. allan noah
On 6/8/08, David Lochrin dlochrin at d2.net.au wrote: On Sunday 08 June 2008 04:18, Nicolas wrote: A bit of clarification: Canon released a packaged frontend+backend named scangearmp. This program works fine as a whole, independently from SANE, with a few pixma models only.

[sane-devel] Please give me some help to solve the license issues in using sane

2008-06-08 Thread David Lochrin
On Sunday 08 June 2008 22:06, m. allan noah wrote: In relation to my previous post, if it's possible to accomodate manufacturers' sensitivities regarding proprietary code within the constraints of the GPL and overall SANE architecture (especially a major player such as Canon) the status of

[sane-devel] Please give me some help to solve the license issues in using sane

2008-06-08 Thread m. allan noah
On 6/8/08, David Lochrin dlochrin at d2.net.au wrote: On Sunday 08 June 2008 22:06, m. allan noah wrote: In relation to my previous post, if it's possible to accomodate manufacturers' sensitivities regarding proprietary code within the constraints of the GPL and overall SANE

[sane-devel] Please give me some help to solve the license issues in using sane

2008-06-08 Thread kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu
And here we see the problem, in a nutshell. My own course is quite similar to Allan's, though I do my work for another project. I think that what is going to have to happen, ultimately, is that some of these hardware manufacturers are going to see if they can find a competitive advantage by

[sane-devel] Please give me some help to solve the license issues in using sane

2008-06-08 Thread m. allan noah
On 6/8/08, kilgota at banach.math.auburn.edu kilgota at banach.math.auburn.edu wrote: And here we see the problem, in a nutshell. My own course is quite similar to Allan's, though I do my work for another project. I think that what is going to have to happen, ultimately, is that some of

[sane-devel] Please give me some help to solve the license issues in using sane

2008-06-08 Thread m. allan noah
On 6/6/08, Daniel Gl?ckner daniel-gl at gmx.net wrote: On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 11:10:52AM -0400, m. allan noah wrote: 3. you can write a partly free backend, that dynamically links to the closed parts, provided that you place a license exception in the free part allowing said linking.

[sane-devel] Please give me some help to solve the license issues in using sane

2008-06-08 Thread kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu
On Sun, 8 Jun 2008, m. allan noah wrote: On 6/8/08, kilgota at banach.math.auburn.edu kilgota at banach.math.auburn.edu wrote: [...] Canon is a very big company, where one hand may not know what another hand is doing. I personally have spent the last couple of years negotiating an NDA

[sane-devel] patch for hp4570c scanjet

2008-06-08 Thread Markham thomas
Hi, Here is the change to get the scanjet 4750c working. Notes: TMA adaptor does not seem to work properly, it sends the scanner carriage to the limit and requires power cycling the scanner to recover. Using just the flatbed scanner works fine. Notes: This patch applies against:

[sane-devel] [PATCH] epkowa: 16-bit on Epson 4490

2008-06-08 Thread Carl Troein
Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: Carl Troein carl.troein at ed.ac.uk writes: Hi all, Hi Carl, Hi Olaf. Sorry for the late follow-up. Ditto. :-) My patch has been mentioned on this list before: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2007-September/019874.html but now I've split it

[sane-devel] Please give me some help to solve the license issues in using sane

2008-06-09 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Johannes Meixner jsmeix at suse.de writes: Hello, [snip] On Jun 6 Olaf Meeuwissen wrote (shortened): If GPL'd code uses a non-compatible library via dlopen that's just as much a violation as linking to it directly. The code runs in the same process space. That makes the combined work a

[sane-devel] Please give me some help to solve the license issues in using sane

2008-06-09 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com writes: [snip} so, is our answer to Mengqiang that there are only four choices? 1. you can write an entirely free backend, and use code from SANE. 2. you can write a partly free backend, that runs the closed parts as a separate process, and use code from

[sane-devel] Please give me some help to solve the license issues in using sane

2008-06-09 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com writes: [snip] this means that the sane I/O facilities cannot be used. however it may be the cleanest thing. that's similar to the epkowa way, which uses sane io facilities iirc? well, if epkowa dynamically links and uses sanei, then it is not

[sane-devel] Please give me some help to solve the license issues in using sane

2008-06-08 Thread m. allan noah
On 6/8/08, Olaf Meeuwissen olaf.meeuwissen at avasys.jp wrote: m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com writes: [snip] this means that the sane I/O facilities cannot be used. however it may be the cleanest thing. that's similar to the epkowa way, which uses sane io facilities

[sane-devel] Please give me some help to solve the license issues in using sane

2008-06-09 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com writes: On 6/8/08, Olaf Meeuwissen olaf.meeuwissen at avasys.jp wrote: m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com writes: [snip] this means that the sane I/O facilities cannot be used. however it may be the cleanest thing. that's similar to

[sane-devel] Please give me some help to solve the license issues in using sane

2008-06-10 Thread Wang Mengqiang
Hello, ;-Original Message- ;From: Johannes Meixner [mailto:jsmeix at suse.de] ;Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 9:06 PM ;To: Olaf Meeuwissen ;Cc: Wang Mengqiang; sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org ;Subject: Re: [sane-devel] Please give me some help to solve ;the license issues in using

[sane-devel] problems with genesys and MD6228

2008-06-10 Thread stef
Hello, I finally got time to look at the log. I noticed that the scan is failing due to incorrect scan parameters, not to MD6228 related problems. Please edit the script, and change scan to only (no geometry options): ../frontend/scanimage -d genesys --resolution 50 2scan.log

[sane-devel] Please give me some help to solve the license issues in using sane

2008-06-10 Thread Wang Mengqiang
Hello, ;-Original Message- ;From: kilgota at banach.math.auburn.edu ;[mailto:kilgota at banach.math.auburn.edu] ;Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 10:40 PM ;To: Wang Mengqiang ;Cc: Alessandro Zummo; SPD-GW; sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org ;Subject: RE: [sane-devel] Please give me some

[sane-devel] Please give me some help to solve the license issues in using sane

2008-06-10 Thread Daniel Glöckner
Hello Wang Mengqiang, On 10 Jun 08 16:24, Wang Mengqiang wrote: For example, you are building the high-way, as we are talking about writing drivers, a more obvious analogy comes to mind. Hardware producers build cars. But these days they don't tell you how to drive these cars and there are no

[sane-devel] Please give me some help to solve the license issues in using sane

2008-06-10 Thread Alessandro Zummo
On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:00:38 +0200 (CEST) Johannes Meixner jsmeix at suse.de wrote: As far as I see, it seems to be allowed from the legal point of view to have free software that uses non-free libraries because they only say that the program won't be fully usable or not usable at all in a

[sane-devel] Please give me some help to solve the license issues in using sane

2008-06-10 Thread kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu
On Tue, 10 Jun 2008, m. allan noah wrote: On 6/10/08, Daniel Gl?ckner daniel-gl at gmx.net wrote: Hello Wang Mengqiang, On 10 Jun 08 16:24, Wang Mengqiang wrote: For example, you are building the high-way, as we are talking about writing drivers, a more obvious analogy comes to

[sane-devel] problems with genesys and MD6228

2008-06-10 Thread Werner Holtfreter
Am Dienstag, 10. Juni 2008 06:37:42 schrieb stef: I finally got time to look at the log. I noticed that the scan is failing due to incorrect scan parameters, not to MD6228 related problems. Please edit the script, and change scan to only (no geometry options): ../frontend/scanimage -d

[sane-devel] problems with genesys and MD6228

2008-06-10 Thread stef
Le Tuesday 10 June 2008 16:38:48 Werner Holtfreter, vous avez ?crit?: Am Dienstag, 10. Juni 2008 06:37:42 schrieb stef: I finally got time to look at the log. I noticed that the scan is failing due to incorrect scan parameters, not to MD6228 related problems. Please edit the script, and

[sane-devel] problems with genesys and MD6228

2008-06-10 Thread Werner Holtfreter
Am Dienstag, 10. Juni 2008 21:09:58 schrieb stef: Thanks, this works fine! The starting point at the top of page varies only between 0,4...0,8. But --resolution 100 (I have short tested with others, but seen only with 100) the old problem sometimes: The scanner head starts to shake

[sane-devel] Please give me some help to solve the license issues in using sane

2008-06-11 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Alessandro Zummo azummo-lists at towertech.it writes: On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:00:38 +0200 (CEST) Johannes Meixner jsmeix at suse.de wrote: As far as I see, it seems to be allowed from the legal point of view to have free software that uses non-free libraries because they only say that the

[sane-devel] Please give me some help to solve the license issues in using sane

2008-06-11 Thread Alessandro Zummo
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:49:04 +0900 Olaf Meeuwissen olaf.meeuwissen at avasys.jp wrote: correct. No so. As per my reply to Johannes' mail: This depends on the respective license conditions of the free and non-free parts. If all of the conditions are not mutually exclusive, then

[sane-devel] Please give me some help to solve the license issues in using sane

2008-06-11 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Johannes Meixner jsmeix at suse.de writes: Hello, On Jun 6 16:40 Alessandro Zummo wrote (shortened): http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#FSWithNFLibs As far as I see, it seems to be allowed from the legal point of view to have free software that uses non-free libraries because they

[sane-devel] Please give me some help to solve the license issues in using sane

2008-06-10 Thread kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu
(Quote) They even say: --- If the program is already written using the non-free library, perhaps it is too late to change the decision. You may as well release the program as it stands, rather than not release it.

[sane-devel] How to use DBG(level, fmt, ...) to output debug information?

2008-06-11 Thread eagleskycloud
Hi I look up the sane/sanei_debug.h, and I also refer to the backends wrote by others, but I still confused how to use DBG(level, fmt, ...) to output specific information. e.g. I define below macro follow the sanei_debug.h, #include sane/sanei_debug.h #define BACKEND_NAME

[sane-devel] Please give me some help to solve the license issues in using sane

2008-06-11 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Alessandro Zummo azummo-lists at towertech.it writes: On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:49:04 +0900 Olaf Meeuwissen olaf.meeuwissen at avasys.jp wrote: correct. No so. As per my reply to Johannes' mail: This depends on the respective license conditions of the free and non-free parts. If

[sane-devel] Please give me some help to solve the license issues in using sane

2008-06-11 Thread Alessandro Zummo
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:55:14 +0900 Olaf Meeuwissen olaf.meeuwissen at avasys.jp wrote: GPL backend + proprietary decoding libs. A manufacturer would choose compatible terms for this case and it is not forbidden by the GPL. There are two possibilities here: 1) the non-free decoding

[sane-devel] How to use DBG(level, fmt, ...) to output debug information?

2008-06-11 Thread m. allan noah
the DBG macro only prints if the proper environment var is set: SANE_DEBUG_BACKENDNAME scanimage -L but change 'BACKENDNAME' to an all-capital version of your backend name. allan On 6/10/08, eagleskycloud eagleskycloud at gmail.com wrote: Hi I look up the sane/sanei_debug.h, and I

[sane-devel] In progress: TRUST Imagery 9600SP (TECO_VM6552)

2008-06-11 Thread Andrej Suligoi
A month ago, you have post that you have developed a backend for Trust Imagery 9600SP for sane in which you appointed that you are the only possessor of an VM6552 device. In fact this is not true, because there are many possessors of this device. In fact I don't have such device, but my friend

[sane-devel] In progress: TRUST Imagery 9600SP (TECO_VM6552)

2008-06-11 Thread Frank Zago
Hello Andrej, Ralph sent me his code in April but went silent since then. I've attached what he send me, so you (or someone else) can start from there. Regards, Frank. -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: teco3.tgz Type: application/x-compressed

[sane-devel] problems with genesys and MD6228

2008-06-11 Thread stef
Le Tuesday 10 June 2008 22:50:53 Werner Holtfreter, vous avez ?crit?: Am Dienstag, 10. Juni 2008 21:09:58 schrieb stef: Thanks, this works fine! The starting point at the top of page varies only between 0,4...0,8. But --resolution 100 (I have short tested with others, but seen only

[sane-devel] In progress: TRUST Imagery 9600SP (TECO_VM6552)

2008-06-12 Thread Sugo
Frank Zago ha scritto: Hello Andrej, Ralph sent me his code in April but went silent since then. I've attached what he send me, so you (or someone else) can start from there. Thanks, I will give a tray. Andrej

[sane-devel] Pixma Button scan still experimental ?

2008-06-12 Thread Nicolas
Question raised to all Canon Pixma users, all models with scan button. The Button scan feature currently displays itself as an experimental Sane option, for instance, is Xsane option window. It looks to have been translated as such also in all Locale versions of Sane. AFAIK, the button scan

[sane-devel] Nikon CoolScan LS-9000 ED support

2008-06-12 Thread Rob Sims
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 05:21:09PM -0600, Rob Sims wrote: As suggested by the web page, I'm posting here to let people know I'm working on a back end for the Nikon LS-9000 (patching coolscan2.c). I also have a few questions. http://www.sane-project.org/unsupported/nikon-ls9000-ed.html I've

[sane-devel] Please give me some help to solve the license issues in using sane

2008-06-13 Thread David Lochrin
On Wednesday 11 June 2008 09:55, Alessandro Zummo wrote: I was talking about a possible proprietary sane backend scenario: GPL backend + proprietary decoding libs. A manufacturer would choose compatible terms for this case and it is not forbidden by the GPL. I think this thread is

[sane-devel] [ANN] GUI for unpaper by Jens Gulden

2008-06-13 Thread Grzegorz Chimosz
Hello I would like to announce GUI for unpaper by Jens Gulden written by me during my course at University of Warsaw. Idea come from my professor Janusz S. Bien, project was supervised also by Aleksander Buczynski. It's quite simple but should help those interested in improving their scans with

[sane-devel] problems with genesys and MD6228

2008-06-13 Thread Werner Holtfreter
Am Mittwoch, 11. Juni 2008 21:39:01 schrieb stef: so this isn't a USB_SUSPEND issue. Could you try your scanner at 100 dpi gray scan on a windows PC ? If so, you can check that the scanner is working (ie no hardware issue), then record the USB communication with the usb sniffer

[sane-devel] anyone working on Lexmark X2330 support?

2008-06-14 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, [Please CC me in all replies] I've had a Lexmark X2330 sitting next to the family Windows box for a couple of years, figured it was time to make it work in Linux. Is anyone else working on Lexmark X2330 support? The protocol seems fairly simple at first glance, so it shouldn't be much

[sane-devel] anyone working on Lexmark X2330 support?

2008-06-14 Thread Gerard Klaver
On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 19:37 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: Hi all, [Please CC me in all replies] I've had a Lexmark X2330 sitting next to the family Windows box for a couple of years, figured it was time to make it work in Linux. Is anyone else working on Lexmark X2330 support? The protocol

[sane-devel] anyone working on Lexmark X2330 support?

2008-06-14 Thread Paul Wise
?[Please CC me in all replies] On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 14:22 +0200, Gerard Klaver wrote: Seems the Dell 810 has the same usb endpoints as the X2330 and other Lexmarks. For some Dell 810 inside picture see http://gkall.hobby.nl/dell-810.html Interesting, thanks for the info. I'm not really

[sane-devel] anyone working on Lexmark X2330 support?

2008-06-14 Thread Gerard Klaver
On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 21:02 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: ?[Please CC me in all replies] On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 14:22 +0200, Gerard Klaver wrote: Seems the Dell 810 has the same usb endpoints as the X2330 and other Lexmarks. For some Dell 810 inside picture see

[sane-devel] problems with genesys and MD6228

2008-06-15 Thread stef
Le Friday 13 June 2008 21:13:33 Werner Holtfreter, vous avez ?crit?: Am Mittwoch, 11. Juni 2008 21:39:01 schrieb stef: so this isn't a USB_SUSPEND issue. Could you try your scanner at 100 dpi gray scan on a windows PC ? If so, you can check that the scanner is working (ie no hardware

[sane-devel] anyone working on Lexmark X2330 support?

2008-06-15 Thread Aapo Tahkola
Hi. On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:37:10 +0800 Paul Wise pabs3 at bonedaddy.net wrote: Hi all, [Please CC me in all replies] I've had a Lexmark X2330 sitting next to the family Windows box for a couple of years, figured it was time to make it work in Linux. Is anyone else working on Lexmark

[sane-devel] Python bindings segfault

2008-06-15 Thread Albert Cervera i Areny
While testing sane python bindings I found a segmentation fault while trying to open the device. I attach a couple of logs. 'sane.log' is the output of running: SANE_DEBUG_HP5590=50 SANE_DEBUG_SANEI_USB=255 ./test-sane.py 'valgrind.log' is the output of running my test script with valgrind

[sane-devel] Python bindings segfault

2008-06-15 Thread Albert Cervera i Areny
A Diumenge 15 Juny 2008, Albert Cervera i Areny va escriure: This is running Debian unstable with the following packages: python-imaging-sane 1.1.6 sane 1.0.14 libsane 1.0.19 plus -deb packages, as as you can see in valgrind.log I meant -dbg pacakges, of course. Do you think this is a

[sane-devel] Python bindings segfault

2008-06-15 Thread abel deuring
On 15.06.2008 14:56, Albert Cervera i Areny wrote: While testing sane python bindings I found a segmentation fault while trying to open the device. I attach a couple of logs. 'sane.log' is the output of running: SANE_DEBUG_HP5590=50 SANE_DEBUG_SANEI_USB=255 ./test-sane.py 'valgrind.log'

[sane-devel] problems with genesys and MD6228

2008-06-15 Thread Werner Holtfreter
Am Sonntag, 15. Juni 2008 07:12:50 schrieb stef: thanks for the data. Unfortunately, the log is too small. A typical log should be a few MB big. For instance I recorded a preview and 100 dpi gray scan a couple centimeters high, and that led to a 22 MB log. I'm going to analyze

[sane-devel] problems with genesys and MD6228

2008-06-16 Thread stef
Le Sunday 15 June 2008 19:32:08 Werner Holtfreter, vous avez ?crit?: Am Sonntag, 15. Juni 2008 07:12:50 schrieb stef: thanks for the data. Unfortunately, the log is too small. A typical log should be a few MB big. For instance I recorded a preview and 100 dpi gray scan a couple

[sane-devel] [RFC][PATCH] sanei configuration framework extension

2008-06-16 Thread stef
Hello, here's a demo patch (compile only for now, waiting for feedback first) that adds a sanei_configure_attach function. It parses a given configuration file 'top down', detects any line starting by option. In this case it analyzes the option name and store the read value in

[sane-devel] problems with genesys and MD6228

2008-06-17 Thread stef
Hello, I've gone through the logs, and I think they are logs of another usb device on the windows machine where they have been recorded. There are only bulk in reads of 8 bytes size in them. I think it is worth to double check that the filter is installed on the usb id

[sane-devel] no devices available

2008-06-17 Thread eart...@eartherdesigns.com
Apologies if this is the wrong place to post this. I gave been trying to get my old HP ScanJet 3300C to work all afternoon. Have searched here and there (including Ubuntu Forums) and tried several possible fixes but nothing has worked. xsane used to be able to run this scanner perfectly

[sane-devel] I have achieved ADF duplex scan

2008-06-18 Thread eagleskycloud
Hi , With your help,I have achieved duplex ADF scan in our backend with sane-backends 1.0.19 and XSane 0.995. Xsane could get front image and back image of a paper at the same time while scanning with ADF. I save back image in a buffer allocated by my backends then Xsane read a back image

[sane-devel] I have achieved ADF duplex scan

2008-06-18 Thread m. allan noah
nice work- i have a few questions: 1. are you employed by microtek? 2. do you know if the 2020s also uses the same protocol? 3. are you planning to release the driver source for inclusion into SANE? allan 2008/6/17 eagleskycloud eagleskycloud at gmail.com: Hi , With your help,I have

[sane-devel] no devices available

2008-06-18 Thread eart...@eartherdesigns.com
Thought I would post a screenie of the device manager info for the ScanJet. Why can't xsane find it? http://www.eartherdesigns.com/ss/scanjet.jpg

[sane-devel] no devices available

2008-06-18 Thread m. allan noah
xsane is not the problem, but sane probably is. run this at the command line as root: SANE_DEBUG_NIASH=255 scanimage -L and post the output to this list. allan On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:10 AM, earther at eartherdesigns.com wrote: Thought I would post a screenie of the device manager info

[sane-devel] no devices available

2008-06-18 Thread m. allan noah
please- always include the list on your responses, as others might have more ideas. lets see the output of running lsusb allan On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:53 AM, earther at eartherdesigns.com wrote: Thanks for responding. Here's the ouput. What next? ~# SANE_DEBUG_NIASH=255 scanimage -L

[sane-devel] no devices available

2008-06-18 Thread eart...@eartherdesigns.com
NOTHING! Even though I have an external USB drive and USB thumb drive mounted!! What's up with that?? Sorry I didn't catch that reply didn't go to the list. Quoting m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com: please- always include the list on your responses, as others might have more ideas.

[sane-devel] no devices available

2008-06-18 Thread m. allan noah
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:12 AM, earther at eartherdesigns.com wrote: NOTHING! Even though I have an external USB drive and USB thumb drive mounted!! What's up with that?? dont know. obviously you have some sort of system problem lower than sane. what were you saying about running the wrong

[sane-devel] no devices available

2008-06-18 Thread eart...@eartherdesigns.com
if your kernel version and system tools don't match, things could be messed up. I think you're right about that. Let me recap. Gutsy was having a hibernation problem with my new hardware (see http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=760026) so it was suggested by several gurus I trust to

[sane-devel] no devices available

2008-06-18 Thread m. allan noah
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:50 PM, earther at eartherdesigns.com wrote: if your kernel version and system tools don't match, things could be messed up. I think you're right about that. Let me recap. Gutsy was having a hibernation problem with my new hardware (see

[sane-devel] Supplied patch for hp4570c, how do I get it added to sane-backend hp5590 driver?

2008-06-18 Thread Markham thomas
I supplied a patch to the hp5590 driver that adds support for hp4570c flatbed scanning, but got no replies and see no evidence it was added to sane-backend in latest CVS. *Original email to June 2008 Thread: Sun Jun 8 19:49:56 UTC 2008 *patch for hp4570c scanjet What steps do I need to take to

[sane-devel] Supplied patch for hp4570c, how do I get it added to sane-backend hp5590 driver?

2008-06-18 Thread m. allan noah
email backend author directly. if he does not respond after a week, come back to list, and one of us will commit your patch. allan 2008/6/18 Markham thomas markham.thomas at gmail.com: I supplied a patch to the hp5590 driver that adds support for hp4570c flatbed scanning, but got no replies

[sane-devel] I have achieved ADF duplex scan(m. allan noah)

2008-06-19 Thread eagleskycloud
1. are you employed by microtek? Yes,I am. 2. do you know if the 2020s also uses the same protocol? I don't know the protocol that 2020s use. As far as I know, the 2020s is different from 4020s in hardware. If you want to develop the driver of 2020s, you could contact with us. 3. are

[sane-devel] Does driver know it is scannning or previewing now with XSane?

2008-06-19 Thread eagleskycloud
Hi, I have two question : 1.To scan multi images,input a number in left corner edit box to indicate the image number of XSane would scan There is a sensor In ADF. It could detecte are there papers in ADF.Upper application could know whether there are papers in ADF by status of the

[sane-devel] Supplied patch for hp4570c, how do I get it added to sane-backend hp5590 driver?

2008-06-19 Thread Ilia Sotnikov
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:14 PM, m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com wrote: email backend author directly. if he does not respond after a week, come back to list, and one of us will commit your patch. Applied, thanks. P.S. Was in a business trip, sorry for the delay Best regards, -- Ilia

[sane-devel] Python bindings segfault

2008-06-19 Thread Ilia Sotnikov
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 2:34 AM, Albert Cervera i Areny albert at nan-tic.com wrote: The attached patch (which indeed has been taken from another driver) should fix this. Note that I didn't test it but it seems pretty obvious this is the cause of the segmentation fault given valgrind's output.

[sane-devel] I have achieved ADF duplex scan(m. allan noah)

2008-06-19 Thread m. allan noah
On 6/18/08, eagleskycloud eagleskycloud at gmail.com wrote: 1. are you employed by microtek? Yes,I am. 2. do you know if the 2020s also uses the same protocol? I don't know the protocol that 2020s use. As far as I know, the 2020s is different from 4020s in hardware. If you want

[sane-devel] Does driver know it is scannning or previewing now with XSane?

2008-06-19 Thread m. allan noah
sorry- response should have gone to list... On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 9:10 AM, m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com wrote: 2008/6/18 eagleskycloud eagleskycloud at gmail.com: Hi, I have two question : 1.To scan multi images,input a number in left corner edit box to indicate the image number

[sane-devel] Prob with an optislim1200 (driver gt68xx)

2008-06-19 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
Trying to get the above USB scanner to work. sane-find-scanner tells me: found USB scanner (vendor=0x07b3, product=0x0413 [600dpi USB Scanner], chip=GT-6816) at libusb:002:002 scanimage -L tells me: device `gt68xx:libusb:002:002' is a Plustek OpticSlim 1200 flatbed scanner but when I try

[sane-devel] [RFC][PATCH] sanei configuration framework extension

2008-06-19 Thread m. allan noah
pretty good, but i have two comments: 1. i think calling the struct SANE_Config instead of something with sanei in it, makes it look too much like something that should be in the SANE standard, instead of the internal-use function that it is. 2. some backends seem to have dozens of options, that

[sane-devel] no devices available

2008-06-19 Thread eart...@eartherdesigns.com
OK. I'm working on this with the local LUG but not hopeful there is a solution short of an upgrade to Hardy. Cheers! Quoting m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com: On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:50 PM, earther at eartherdesigns.com wrote: if your kernel version and system tools don't match,

[sane-devel] I have achieved ADF duplex scan(m. allan noah)

2008-06-20 Thread eagleskycloud
I use sanei functions sanei_constrain_value(). In Windows ,I search the key word sanei in my driver source code of Linux , and result is below: Searching for 'sanei'... D:\DI4020s_Linux\DI4020s.c(18):#include sanei.h D:\DI4020s_Linux\DI4020s.c(19):#include sanei_config.h

[sane-devel] unsupported scanner

2008-06-20 Thread bernhard
scanner: * plustek opticbook 3600 Plus * WFBA4122PU2 * bought: 06.2006 * chip: GL842 0746MPMNJ02-08G * usb-Connection my computer * Siemens Lifebook E-Series * ubuntu 8.04 windows: * the scanner works properly with windows XP in virtualbox

[sane-devel] Does driver know it is scannning or previewing now with XSane?

2008-06-20 Thread m. allan noah
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 10:51 PM, eagleskycloud eagleskycloud at gmail.com wrote: you can expose the sensor, as we have added some well-known option names for this with sane 1.1. (which still needs the spec to be updated, but i've not had time) While scannning multi-page with ADF, upper

[sane-devel] USB problems - [wasno devices available]

2008-06-20 Thread eart...@eartherdesigns.com
Good news. I have made some progress after upgrading the Hardy udev package but still not out of the woods. lsusb now prints out correctly: ~$ lsusb Bus 008 Device 001: ID : Bus 007 Device 001: ID : Bus 006 Device 002: ID 03f0:0205 Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 3300c Bus 006 Device

[sane-devel] USB problems - [wasno devices available]

2008-06-21 Thread kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu
Hi, Don't know about the scanner, but I do know a bit about the internals of libgphoto2. The problem with the scanner is most probably similar to what appears to happen with the camera: With approximately 99% probability, I would say that your problem with the camera is a permissions problem.

[sane-devel] USB problems - [wasno devices available]

2008-06-21 Thread eart...@eartherdesigns.com
Yes, you are correct that it is a permissions problem, I finally got the camera working properly by editing /etc/udev/rules.d/40-permissions.rules as per this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=784864 I can now run xsane as root but not as user. I have looked through Groups

[sane-devel] New Scanner Purchase .....

2008-06-21 Thread peter
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[sane-devel] New Scanner Purchase .....

2008-06-21 Thread Gerard Klaver
On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 14:29 +0700, peter wrote: My HP Scanjet 3970 is on its way out . I would like to replace with another HP and I have just been comparing the HP Scanjet current models (from the HP site) with what is and what is not supported in Sane. It appears that more or less

[sane-devel] New Scanner Purchase .....

2008-06-21 Thread peter
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[sane-devel] New Scanner Purchase .....

2008-06-21 Thread m. allan noah
On 6/21/08, peter petercmx at gmail.com wrote: Gerard Klaver wrote: On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 14:29 +0700, peter wrote: My HP Scanjet 3970 is on its way out . I would like to replace with another HP and I have just been comparing the HP Scanjet current models (from the HP site) with

[sane-devel] Problem: X-Server crashes when using XSane

2008-06-21 Thread Christoph M. Schröder
Hi everyone, i got a problem and can't find any solution. So i hope you can help me. I'm using XSane on Ubuntu 8.04. My scanner is an AGFA Snapscan 1236s (SCSI). Yesterday i got a transparency adapter for it. At first for some hours (with pauses) everything worked fine. I got great results.

[sane-devel] New Scanner Purchase .....

2008-06-21 Thread peter
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[sane-devel] Problem: X-Server crashes when using XSane

2008-06-21 Thread Julien BLACHE
Christoph M. Schr?der cmschroeder at maxi-dsl.de wrote: Hi, But suddenly, (i think after i did some black and white negative scans), i could not use the transparency adapter anymore. Every time i want to use it now, the X-Server crashes up and starts from new (also when i As they say at

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