Henning Meier-Geinitz <henn...@meier-geinitz.de> wrote: > - geniusvp2: Nobody volunteered to move it into CVS and maintain it > there. Julien reported that the "geniusvp2 doesn't release ppdev" > problem is still there.
Hi, I'm the current maintainer of the geniusvp2 backend. Due to lack of time, I haven't worked on it for many months, but I intend to restart working on it. Here's the current status of the code: - the latest released version (1.0.16.1, basically the same code from the sane-extras package) is based on ppdev. I thought that the patch that Julien sent me some time ago (and which is in sane-extras since 1.0.16 AFAIR) has fixed the problem reported above, but it seems it's not the case. - I have a new version converted to sanei_pp API, with a few code improvements, but no new features. I should put it on a SVN repository at SF.net ASAP. The reason I didn't release a new version based on this new code yet is that it has proved more "unstable" than the previous ppdev code, with more backtracks when scanning at relatively high resolutions. The scan is also hanging more than the previous code at normal resolutions. I plan to investigate better how the Windows driver sets up the motor speed and other settings, because even when running Windows under Bochs (which already has its own overhead) on a Linux host, there are bo backtracks or hangs at all. So, given the situation, I suggest _not_ putting the current code in SANE CVS yet. Maybe the new sanei_pp based code is more suitable, but it should still stay experimental given the stability issues and lack of features (no calibration, no B/W). Any comments or suggestions, feel free to contact me. Best Regards, -- Anderson Lizardo __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
