[sane-devel] Problem with HP ScanJet 4p and SCSI

2009-06-10 Thread David Brant
Hi Dieter No need to apologise, your English is perfectly clear to me. The problem is me and my limited understanding of linux! Here is my log. david at david-desktop:/etc/udev/rules.d$ dir 55-scanner.rules 70-persistent-cd.rules 70-persistent-net.rules README david at david-desktop:/etc/udev/

[sane-devel] SANE frozen in amber ?

2009-06-10 Thread Alessandro Zummo
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:15:24 +0200 Julien BLACHE wrote: > There are a couple of limitations that cannot be lifted without that, > so yes. nice! while we are there, I'd love to have a function to retrieve the scanner maker and model -- Best regards, Alessandro Zummo, Tower Technologie

[sane-devel] SANE frozen in amber ?

2009-06-10 Thread Julien BLACHE
Alessandro Zummo wrote: Hi, >> Whatever we do requires careful consideration to produce a better API >> that will fix the current shortcomings without introducing new ones >> that we can avoid. (like, say, busy-looping on sane_start(), shrug.) > > so the plan is whole new API not binary compati

[sane-devel] SANE frozen in amber ?

2009-06-10 Thread Alessandro Zummo
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:27:41 +0200 Julien BLACHE wrote: > Whatever we do requires careful consideration to produce a better API > that will fix the current shortcomings without introducing new ones > that we can avoid. (like, say, busy-looping on sane_start(), shrug.) so the plan is whole new A

[sane-devel] SANE frozen in amber ?

2009-06-10 Thread Julien BLACHE
stef wrote: > This is why I regret that recent plans to bring a little evolution > were > postponed over such a mundane thing than a dll version. An frequent I think you still haven't got it. There are plans for changes to the API; Allan reviewed the SANE2 draft but I believe he's bus

[sane-devel] SANE frozen in amber ?

2009-06-10 Thread stef
Hello, Here's a little story that happened months ago: my wife wanted to scan a document with our MD6471 run by the genesys backend. She calls me: - It isn't working ! - What is happening ? (as a backend maintainer I rushed, quite upset) - It doesn't move.

[sane-devel] Most Hackable Scanner?

2009-06-10 Thread Daniel Reetz
Hi All, My summer project is to build a scanner camera. I've done my reading and Googling, and found a few people's projects. I've seen the work by Wandel, http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/tech/scanner.html Tom Sharpless, http://home.comcast.net/~scancams/ Andrew Davidhazy, http://people.rit.edu/