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

2005-04-11 Thread Bertrik Sikken
Fred Odendaal wrote: > 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

[sane-devel] Scan slow to start on Canon N670U (plustek)

2005-04-11 Thread Jon Niehof
First off, I apologize for my impatience. Caching the calibration certainly makes a difference. 300 dpi 230x150mm grey scans, with the lamp left on and thus warmup time set to zero: no caching, full calibration: 1m12.999s cache coarse: 57.469s no calibration: 50.729s (and, indeed, ugly lines) Wi

[sane-devel] genesys and hp2400

2005-04-11 Thread Florian Goth
--Boundary-00=_KEpWCI2Tva37voZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hi! I've tested the backend again, with the changes from the weekend. Here's the log: --Boundary-00=_KEpWCI2Tva37voZ Content-Type: application/x-tgz; name="l

[sane-devel] Scan slow to start on Canon N670U (plustek)

2005-04-11 Thread Gerhard Jaeger
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 Jon Niehof wrote: >I'm using scanimage in batch mode to scan books (at 300dpi, 8 >bit grey) on a Canon N670U (plustek backend, sane-backends >1.0.15). Once the scan starts it's reasonably fast; however, the >scan head spends quite a bit of time (maybe twenty seconds) >futzing abo

[sane-devel] Sane & calibration: help needed!

2005-04-11 Thread NM Lists
Le lundi 11 avril 2005 =C3=A0 09:36 +0200, Gerhard Jaeger a =C3=A9crit : > This should normally be done by the backends fine-calibration. > Which SANE version are you using? sane-backends 1.0.15, on Gentoo.

[sane-devel] Sane & calibration: help needed!

2005-04-11 Thread Gerhard Jaeger
On Saturday 09 April 2005 01:54, NM Lists wrote: > Hi all, > > When I scan through sane+xsane, the images on my Canon Lide20 show a > calibration problem; the left side of the image is much clearer than the > right side. However, with the Canon drivers on Windows, after having hit > the "calibrate

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

2005-04-11 Thread Gerhard Jaeger
On Friday 08 April 2005 17:42, Julien BLACHE wrote: > 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, in