The fujitsu sane backend does not support software changes to that setting, because it was effectively read-only in older scanners. I think the newer machines might support software control of that value. I will try to find some time to look at that this weekend.
allan On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 6:35 AM, Simon Matter <simon.matter at invoca.ch> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using sane-backends-1.0.24 to access a new Fujitsu fi-7160. > > The manpage shows this in the Sensor section: > > --function <int> [0] [hardware] > Function character on screen > > My question is, is there a way to set a sensor value by software, not > using the buttons on the device? > > The main question is because Fujitsu has changed the default function to 0 > in the newest device series while it was 1 in older devices like the > fi-6130. > > Regards, > Simon > > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"