Hello everyone, I have a questions: 1. why in /usr/lib/sane has 2 files (ie: libsane-sm3600.so.1 , libsane-sm3600.so.1.0.17) as i know that libsane-sm3600.so.1 is symbolic link to libsane-sm3600.so.1.0.17, but why in /usr/local/lib/sane has 4 files (ie: libsane-sm3600.la , libsane-sm3600.so , libsane-sm3600.so.1 , libsane-sm3600.so.1.0.17) ? why not only one file libsane-sm3600.so.1.0.17 files to let xsane to link to this driver ?
2. because I am still new for linux filesystem hierarchy , so i just want to know that my linux fc5, have installed sane backend from it's fc5 dvd distro, but there is no source code to debug. so I downloaded from sane-project website, the source of sane-backend, and then I build and installed in default directory /usr/local/lib/sane, and then the questions is why the source not default to /usr/lib/sane directory? Is there any different between /usr/local/lib/sane and /usr/lib/sane directory ? any assistance or englightment would be appreciated Thank you Sincerely, Sofian --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2?/min or less. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/attachments/20060518/226aebc4/attachment.htm From stef...@modulonet.fr Fri May 19 11:56:18 2006 From: stef...@modulonet.fr (=?iso-8859-15?q?St=E9phane_VOLTZ?=) Date: Fri May 19 11:57:12 2006 Subject: [sane-devel] Lexmark experimental backend Message-ID: <200605191356.18305.stef...@modulonet.fr> Hello, I have just committed a new version of the experimental/lexmark backend. From the current regular backend it brings: - arbitrary scanarea selection - gain calibration - offset calibration - software shading calibration - Dell A920 support - infrastructure for adding more models I believe the experimental is in good shape to get into regular CVS. However, while I took care of not altering X1100 support, and since I don't have such a model to test, there may be bugs for this model. So it needs testing. For A920 1200 dpi scan is disabled, since it does 1200x600, and so needs to "inflate" lines to match 1200x1200. Which is a little tricky since the data copying expects even/odd columns interleaved. Last issue is shading calibration. This scanner has no hardware shading calibration, and it has to be done in software. The current correction implementation gives good results, but shows deficiency in dark areas. The trouble is due to the fact that correction depends of the sensor element that corresponds to the scanned column, but also slightly depends on his neighbours in a way I couldn't figure out. Someone more clever than me will have to find it. Pictures given "out of the box" are correct, and with little tweaking of gamma and light from the frontend, one can have good scans. Regards, Stef