[sane-devel] New version of the gt68xx backend released

2002-09-22 Thread Irvin Probst
On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 22:48, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > Hi, > > I'm interested in reports from testers. Especially if I broke the > GT-6816 scanners (BearPaw 1200TA, 2400TA) while changing the > gain/exposure control. And I want to know, which resolutions work for > which scanner. I can only t

[sane-devel] New version of the gt68xx backend released

2002-09-22 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, There is a new version of the gt68xx backend: 1.0-11. http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/gt68xx-backend/ Changes: - 1200 dpi works now at least for the BearPaw 1200 CU. Maybe also for the other scanners. - Added manual and automatic offset/gain/exposure control for the CIS scanners. The

[sane-devel] Backend freeze for SANE 1.0.9

2002-09-22 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, Backend freeze for 1.0.9 is now active. That means no new backends are allowed to be added to the SANE distribution until release. The schedule is: 2002-09-29 feature freeze 2002-10-13 code freeze 2002-10-20 release Feature freeze means that only bug fixes and documentation updates are allo

[sane-devel] sane_get_parameters / sample depth

2002-09-22 Thread abel deuring
Major A wrote: >>Could somebody give me a clue about the possible sample depths? > > > There are only the three you mentioned -- 1, 8, 16. If a scanner > supports, say, 12 bits, then the backend has to expand that to 16 > bits. The way this is usually done is that the scanned samples are > left-j

[sane-devel] sane_get_parameters / sample depth

2002-09-22 Thread abel deuring
Hi all, I'm currently trying to improve the sane "glue layer" from PIL (Python Imaging Library). One of things missing there is support for other sample depths than 8. While it's obvious how to implement support for line art, I'm become more and more puzzled, if support for other sample depths

[sane-devel] sane_get_parameters / sample depth

2002-09-22 Thread Major A
> Could somebody give me a clue about the possible sample depths? There are only the three you mentioned -- 1, 8, 16. If a scanner supports, say, 12 bits, then the backend has to expand that to 16 bits. The way this is usually done is that the scanned samples are left-justified within the two byte

[sane-devel] USB - scanner - devel

2002-09-22 Thread Yann E. MORIN
Once upon a time (on Sunday 22 September 2002 09:12), Jaeger, Gerhard wisely wrote: > No problems here with that test program! But you should run this one > as root user. Yes, ran as root. Segfaults. I've investigated in the code, and it really crashes when trying to access the first device of

[sane-devel] USB - scanner - devel

2002-09-22 Thread Jaeger, Gerhard
On Sunday, 22. September 2002 02:28, Yann E. MORIN wrote: [SNIP] > OK. In dmesg, the device identifies itself as VID/PID:0x4a9/0x220D, that is > the same as a N670U. So the chip inside ought to be the same (or > compatible). After some digging, I came up with these results: N676U scans > at 48 bits

[sane-devel] USB - scanner - devel

2002-09-22 Thread Yann E. MORIN
--Boundary-00=_TADTQDO6ABLCA9CNND8L Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On Saturday 21 September 2002 12:49, you wrote: > the chip inside should be a merlin LM9832 or 9833. I currently > bought a Canon N670U which should be compatible with