[sane-devel] Benq 5150C / 5250C users: please test

2006-01-09 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, > Ok, I did some testing with my BenQ 5150C. > > My first try was in 300dpi color mode (because this was default). > There are no color stripes anymore. However, the scanned area was > not very wide. Although the full available range > ((0,0)x(216.0,297.0)mm^2) was selected in xscanimage. The

[sane-devel] Intended change of config file handling

2006-01-09 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, > I do not understand how automated firmware upload should work > if there is more than one scanner connected which use the same > backend but which need different firmware files. For the snapscan backend that's currently not possible, as there is only a single firmware file entry in snapsca

[sane-devel] sane SCSI 32bit emulation on 64bit

2006-01-09 Thread Julien BLACHE
abel deuring wrote: > I don't want to open a discussion about licenses, but IMHO Sane's > exception to the GPL encourages cases like this one. I think it > would be more reasonable to put sane-backends under the LGPL, which Good luck in getting every copyright holder (which includes every patch

[sane-devel] Vendor and product ids in description files

2006-01-09 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, On 2006-01-09 16:23, Johannes Meixner wrote: > > The keyword refers to the previous `:model', is optional, > > and applicable for devices with :interface "USB" only, > > and should be used only once per model. > > Example: `:usbid "0x1234" "0x4321"' > > "Should" is o.k. but please do not stri

[sane-devel] Intended change of config file handling

2006-01-09 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, On 2006-01-09 14:36, Johannes Meixner wrote: > But my question is: > Can the backend automatically determine the right firmware file > for a particular model? Yes and no :-) I'm talking about gt68xx scanners but I guess it's similar for others. For the gt68xx scanners there is usually one sp

[sane-devel] sane SCSI 32bit emulation on 64bit

2006-01-09 Thread abel deuring
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > Hello Henning, >>Just to make one thing clear: Vuescan is NOT a SANE frontend. I.e. it >>does not use any SANE backend. It's a completely independent program >>with independent scanner drivers. > >>It just happens to use a part of the internal low level SANE code >>(sanei

[sane-devel] Vendor and product ids in description files

2006-01-09 Thread Johannes Meixner
Hello, On Jan 8 17:00 Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote (shortened): > The format of the SANE description files (.desc) has been changed to > allow the addition of USB vendor and product ids to each model entry. Great! > The keyword refers to the previous `:model', is optional, > and applicable for

[sane-devel] Microtek Film Scan 35

2006-01-09 Thread Andrei V. Toutoukine
Dear SANE Developers, On Sun, 8 Jan 2006, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: >> OK, I'd like to try. Should I contact the manufacturer for protocol >> details or maybe someone has these already? They pretend they're not authorized to give this information and it is kept in secret by hardware manufact

[sane-devel] Intended change of config file handling

2006-01-09 Thread Johannes Meixner
Hello, On Dec 28 13:09 Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote (shortened): > The idea behind this change is that .conf.in files can be preprocessed > the same way as already done for the manual pages (e.g. sane-epson.man > -> sane-epson.5). This allows us to use configure variables like > @DATADIR@ in the c

[sane-devel] [PATCH] undefined symbols in the qcam backend on GNU/kFreeBSD

2006-01-09 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 01:53:45PM +0100, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > Hi, Hi, > On 2006-01-07 05:15, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > -#if defined(__linux__) || defined (HAVE_SYS_HW_H) > > +#if defined(__GLIBC__) || defined (HAVE_SYS_HW_H) > > But this means that Linux without glibc won' work, which

[sane-devel] Vendor and product ids in description files

2006-01-09 Thread Jochen Eisinger
Hi, the search engine (http://www.sane-project.org/cgi-bin/driver.pl) now supports search for usb-ids as well. You can either fill in the IDs in the form (you can also leave out either the vendor or the product ID), or invoke the script directly: driver.pl?p=4002 will search for usb devices wit

[sane-devel] sane SCSI 32bit emulation on 64bit

2006-01-09 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
Hello Henning, thanks much for your thoughts! > > 3) xsane is a GUI around sane, > > It's a frontend, not really "gui around sane". > > >but not a scanning application either, > > Come on. Let's not argue about semantics. While I don't doubt that xsane is a good program for pushing slider