[sane-devel] Third revision of Scanner HOWTO available

2003-07-20 Thread Till Kamppeter
I have put up my Mini-HOWTO also here http://www.linuxprinting.org/download/digitalimage/Scanning-as-Normal-User-on-Wierd-Scanner-Mini-HOWTO.txt but all the way it should be the best to have this also described in your HOWTO. Till Till Kamppeter wrote: [...] > > Scanning-as-Normal-User-on

[sane-devel] Third revision of Scanner HOWTO available

2003-07-20 Thread Till Kamppeter
Major A wrote: > > chapter 5.: > > saned section: there's no mention at all of the changes required to > net.conf. Also, what's the warning all about? I'd say it's advisable > to run saned as a dedicated user (I usually call it saned), but it's > not a group. Also, once saned is set up properly,

[sane-devel] Third revision of Scanner HOWTO available

2003-07-20 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 03:55:17PM +0100, Major A wrote: > "IMPORTANT: You cannot have both kernel scanner support enabled (i.e., > compiled in statically or the module loaded if a module) and libusb > installed and access the hardware at the same time, or nothing will > work." Why not? The on

[sane-devel] Sane API Suggestion

2003-07-20 Thread Major A
> > A thin C interface layer could then use one callback dispatcher to > > handle all C callbacks. The callback dispatcher could use stdarg.h > > to process the other args or perhaps they could be passed to the > > callback using a count and array. > > Well, maybe the other developers have more e

[sane-devel] Third revision of Scanner HOWTO available

2003-07-20 Thread Major A
Howard, > Thanks for any input, Sorry for joining the discussion so late, and sorry for possibly duplicating what others have said (I didn't have time to read their responses). chapter 2.: There is no mention of IEEE 1394 devices. There should be, since several of those are supported by SANE,

[sane-devel] Sane API Suggestion

2003-07-20 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, I forgot to add: On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 08:48:54AM -0400, Peter Santoro wrote: > In the future, I would be happy to contribute a scheme->sane interface > library to the sane project, but it sure would be nice if the sane api was > more non-C friendly. I don't want to discourage you: A sch

[sane-devel] Sane API Suggestion

2003-07-20 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 08:48:54AM -0400, Peter Santoro wrote: > Although I have a number of years of experience programming C/C++/Java, I > now prefer to use scheme for most of my programming. After briefly looking > at the sane api, I noticed that callbacks are sometimes used.

[sane-devel] Does anyone need help writing a backend?

2003-07-20 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 02:38:36PM +0200, Jaeger, Gerhard wrote: > On Samstag, 19. Juli 2003 12:10, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Usually people ask for help here. In this case it's the other way > > round: I may have some spare time during the next few weeks so if > > anyone ne

[sane-devel] Third revision of Scanner HOWTO available

2003-07-20 Thread abel deuring
Howard Shane schrieb: > ...at http://66.25.191.66/docs/HOWTOS/Scanner/index.html > > This is your last chance to point out any remaining technical errata > prior to grammatical review and (hopefully) publication by TLDP. Perhaps I'm jumping a bit too late into the discussion of your Howto, but a

[sane-devel] Third revision of Scanner HOWTO available

2003-07-20 Thread Howard Shane
Thanks to everyone for all the suggestions. I though I had addressed most of the concerns up to now, but it looks like there will need to be one more revision prior to publication. A few of the comments I've received are contradictory; I'm going out of town for a week and upon return I'll negotiate

[sane-devel] Third revision of Scanner HOWTO available

2003-07-20 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 04:45:12PM -0500, Howard Shane wrote: > ...at http://66.25.191.66/docs/HOWTOS/Scanner/index.html > > This is your last chance to point out any remaining technical errata > prior to grammatical review and (hopefully) publication by TLDP. Ok, lets see if I can nitpick a

[sane-devel] re: Sane API Suggestion

2003-07-20 Thread Peter Santoro
Oops, sorry for the typo in my first paragraph. Here's my previous post with a corrected first paragraph: The initial version of my application (written in scheme) does not use the sane api directly, but utilizes scanimage and scanadf to perform scanning. In a future release, I would like to

[sane-devel] Sane API Suggestion

2003-07-20 Thread Peter Santoro
The initial version of my based application (written in scheme) does not use the sane api directly, but utilizes scanimage and scanadf to perform scanning. In a future release, I would like to use the sane api directly for better control. Although I have a number of years of experience progra