Hello, On Apr 23 17:04 m. allan noah wrote (shortened): > On 4/23/08, Julien BLACHE <jb at jblache.org> wrote: > > > > Well, without the non-free bits it provides better support for some > > scanner, and supports devices no other backend supports :) > > which scanners are those? I wonder if the best course of action would > be to update the epson or epson2 backends to support those scanners, > then you could drop epkowa.
Use something like egrep ':model|:comment' doc/descriptions-external/epkowa.desc \ | grep -B1 ':comment.*non-free' and you get entries like --------------------------------------------------------------- :model "GT-7200U" ; product spec (JP) :comment "requires DFSG non-free iscan-plugin-gt-7200<br> also supported by the plustek backend" :model "GT-7300U" ; product spec (JP) :comment "requires DFSG non-free iscan-plugin-gt-7300<br> also supported by the plustek backend" :model "GT-F500" ; product spec (JP) :comment "multi photo feeder not supported<br> requires DFSG non-free iscan-plugin-gt-f500<br> also supported by the snapscan backend" :model "GT-F520" :comment "multi photo feeder not supported<br> requires DFSG non-free iscan-plugin-gt-f520<br> also supported by the snapscan backend" :model "GT-F550" ; product spec (JP) :comment "auto film loader not supported<br> requires DFSG non-free iscan-plugin-gt-f500<br> also supported by the snapscan backend" :model "GT-F570" :comment "auto film loader not supported<br> requires DFSG non-free iscan-plugin-gt-f520<br> also supported by the snapscan backend" :model "Perfection 1250" :comment "requires DFSG non-free iscan-plugin-gt-7200<br> also supported by the plustek backend<br> overseas version of the GT-7200U" :model "Perfection 1250 PHOTO" :comment "requires DFSG non-free iscan-plugin-gt-7200<br> also supported by the plustek backend<br> Perfection 1250 with TPU option bundled" :model "Perfection 1260" :comment "requires DFSG non-free iscan-plugin-gt-7300<br> also supported by the plustek backend<br> overseas version of the GT-7300U" :model "Perfection 1260 PHOTO" :comment "requires DFSG non-free iscan-plugin-gt-7300<br> also supported by the plustek backend<br> Perfection 1260 with TPU option bundled" :model "Perfection 2480 PHOTO" :comment "multi photo feeder not supported<br> requires DFSG non-free iscan-plugin-gt-f500<br> also supported by the snapscan backend<br> overseas version of the GT-F500" :model "Perfection 2580 PHOTO" :comment "auto film loader not supported<br> requires DFSG non-free iscan-plugin-gt-f500<br> also supported by the snapscan backend<br> overseas version of the GT-F550" :model "Perfection 3490 PHOTO" :comment "multi photo feeder not supported<br> requires DFSG non-free iscan-plugin-gt-f520<br> also supported by the snapscan backend<br> overseas version of the GT-F520" :model "Perfection 3590 PHOTO" :comment "auto film loader not supported<br> requires DFSG non-free iscan-plugin-gt-f520<br> also supported by the snapscan backend<br> overseas version of the GT-F570" --------------------------------------------------------------- Unfortunately most models which require a non-free plugin are not supported by another (i.e. free) backend. Furthermore many of the proprietary models require firmware upload which is automatically done by the epkowa backend together with the matching non-free plugin. Currently - as far as I found out (see below) - firmware files are only needed for the following scanners: ----------------------------------------------------------------- esfw41.bin: Perfection 2480 PHOTO / GT-F500, Perfection 2580 PHOTO / GT-F550 esfw32.bin: Perfection 3170 PHOTO / GT-9400UF esfw52.bin: Perfection 3490 PHOTO / GT-F520, Perfection 3590 PHOTO / GT-F570 esfw43.bin: Perfection 4180 PHOTO / GT-F600 esfw54.bin: Perfection 4490 PHOTO / GT-X750 esfw66.bin: Perfection V10 / GT-S600, Perfection V100 PHOTO / GT-F650 esfw68.bin: Perfection V350 PHOTO / GT-F700 esfw7A.bin: Perfection V200 PHOTO / GT-F670 ----------------------------------------------------------------- To determine for which models the firmware files are: For each firmware file do "strings $firmware-file | grep ^EPSON". At the moment this results the following models: esfw41.bin: GT-F500 esfw32.bin: GT-9400 esfw52.bin: GT-F520 esfw43.bin: GT-F600 esfw54.bin: GT-X750 esfw66.bin: GT-S600 esfw68.bin: GT-F700 esfw7A.bin: GT-F670 Then check epkowa.desc which other models require the same non-free plugin and assume that all those models require the respective firmware file too. By the way: I must know which models require firmware upload so that I can inform our users when they try out a free backend where the firmware upload must be configured manually. Again a nice example which awkward things I do to deal with Epson Avasys' proprietary stuff in particular because their official policy is to not help distributors to package their proprietary stuff well and easily. Step by step Epson Avasys' official policy results what they actually ask for: "do not actually realase it but keep it under Epson Avasys' full control" - o.k. - they conviced me - they can get what they ask for... Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex
