[sane-devel] Insights from a newbie backend writer...

2005-04-08 Thread Fred Odendaal
So, I'm thinking "I've got a degree in comp. sci. How difficult can it be to write a scanner driver?" I leaf through the sane documentation - looks simple enough! "Okay", I decide, "I'll do it!" Then I start looking for information about my scanner - a Lexmark X1185. I start with Lexmark. They

[sane-devel] configure check for locking fails as non-root ...

2005-04-08 Thread Julien BLACHE
Gerhard Jaeger wrote: Hi, > sorry for the late response. > These are the problems, that I've expected, when introducing this > feature. But I have no idea how to solve it! Well, disabling the locking if your check fails, instead of aborting the configure script would be a good start :) Correc

[sane-devel] Re: connecting to Epson PX-A550 (CX4600)

2005-04-08 Thread David D. Smith
--=-=-= Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable "Russ" =3D=3D Russ writes: Russ> I'm using SUSE 9.1. I had to make the following links in Russ> /usr/lib since the EPKOWA driver wanted an earlier versions Russ> libcrypto.so.0.9.6 and libssl.so.0.9.6: Russ> ln -s libcrypto.s

[sane-devel] usb-IO-error with genesys

2005-04-08 Thread Philipp Schmid
Hello, I am very interested in doing some developpment on the genesys driver. So I tried the genesys driver from the cvs html tree with a lide50 scanner. But it doesn't work on my system because it ends in an usb IO-error. e.g. if I try scanimage with SANE_DEBUG_SANEI_USB=128 and SANE_DEBUG_

[sane-devel] Re: Parportscanner Mustek 600 III EP Plus.

2005-04-08 Thread Eddy De Greef
p...@punkt.se wrote: > Can you give me the link to the bug page, please ? I don't think that there is a real bug page, but I've once reported it to the parport mailing list: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-parport/2004-September/000162.html > Is there somone working on that bug ? I

[sane-devel] CinePaint and sane

2005-04-08 Thread Gerhard Jaeger
On Thursday 07 April 2005 17:12, Robin Rowe wrote: > Hi. I lead the CinePaint project. We don't have much in the way of scanner > support now and want to address that. CinePaint has some CMS support. I'm > writing to let you know we're interested in scanners and CMS. Would like to > hear of any opp

[sane-devel] configure check for locking fails as non-root ...

2005-04-08 Thread Gerhard Jaeger
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 21:40, Julien BLACHE wrote: > Hi, > > Like this: > chgrp: changing group of `sanetest.file': Operation not permitted > configure: error: Group uucp not exist on this system, either create it or > use an existing. > > This is just not going to work as a user, unless you conf

[sane-devel] connecting to Epson PX-A550 (CX4600)

2005-04-08 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
davidsm...@acm.org (David D. Smith) writes: > I am attempting to use an Epson PX-A550 (US model CX4600) using the > epkowa backend (1.0.195 in sane-backends 1.0.15) from an IBM ThinkPad Please note that the epkowa backend is NOT part of sane-backends. It is part of Image Scan! for Linux (and Deb

[sane-devel] connecting to Epson PX-A550 (CX4600)

2005-04-08 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Russ writes: > On Wednesday 06 April 2005 09:34 pm, David D. Smith wrote: >> I am attempting to use an Epson PX-A550 (US model CX4600) using the >> epkowa backend (1.0.195 in sane-backends 1.0.15) from an IBM ThinkPad >> X40 laptop using kernel 2.6.11 and libusb 0.1.10a both from Debian >> GNU/Li

[sane-devel] CinePaint and sane

2005-04-08 Thread Robin Rowe
Gerhard, > CinePaint has been branched off from The Gimp, hasn't it? The CinePaint code was based on a GIMP branch that they forked in 1998 and later abandoned. Many people have presumed that the CinePaint team is an offshoot of the GIMP hackers somehow, even imagining that we're disgruntled f

[sane-devel] Re: connecting to Epson PX-A550 (CX4600)

2005-04-08 Thread Russ
On Friday 08 April 2005 01:13 am, David D. Smith wrote: > "Russ" == Russ writes: > > Russ> I'm using SUSE 9.1. I had to make the following links in > Russ> /usr/lib since the EPKOWA driver wanted an earlier versions > Russ> libcrypto.so.0.9.6 and libssl.so.0.9.6: > Russ> ln -s lib

[sane-devel] Re: connecting to Epson PX-A550 (CX4600)

2005-04-08 Thread David D. Smith
--=-=-= Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable "Sean" =3D=3D Sean Bruno writes: Sean> On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 13:34 +0900, David D. Smith wrote: >> I am attempting to use an Epson PX-A550 (US model CX4600) using >> the epkowa backend (1.0.195 in sane-backends 1.0.15) from an IBM >> T