I did a bit of digging in the source, and it appears that you could set GENESYS_FLAG_NO_CALIBRATION in the Lide60 entry in backend/genesys_devices.c (along with removing the existing calibration flags), and rebuild sane-backends. That should bypass the calibration code.
allan On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 3:34 PM, m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Ben Green <greenb1 at mac.com> wrote: >> Fair enough Allan, it's not much use just putting out vague questions really > > <snip> > >> i'm sure its still possible, i just need to find the way!! > > You have no clue how to use the command line or write code, yet you > are sure this scanner is suitable :) > > Many scanners do the calibration automatically, and will choke when > you gut them like this. Fortunately, the Genesys chips require the > software to initialize the calibration, so it should be possible to > bypass that. Unfortunately, the data will look bad. You really need to > do a scan with the assembled scanner, and cache the calibration > values, like genesys backend does for ADF machines. Then you could > re-use that calibration data. > > You might have to hack some code to make these things happen. > > allan > -- > "The truth is an offense, but not a sin" > -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
