[sane-devel] Brother MFC 6800

2003-02-17 Thread David Paschal
Fernando Trias wrote: > Another question: is there any consumer-oriented multi-function > printer/scanner/fax that is supported by sane? Hi, Fernando. Most of the HP multi-function peripherals are supported. See http://hpoj.sourceforge.net. David

[sane-devel] PSC 750

2003-02-06 Thread David Paschal
Bradley D. Pierson wrote: > Hello, I have a HP PSC 750, and would like to get the scanner portion of > it going under RH8 Pheobe. I cannot not get sane or any applications to > see the scanner part of this 3-in-1. what do I need to do? Hi, Bradley. You need the HP OfficeJet Linux driver, availab

[sane-devel] Printer/Scanner HP3300 locks-up when done

2003-01-03 Thread David Paschal
Rob Tanner wrote: > Scanning works fine, but afterwards the printer won't print, in fact, > it won't even recognize print commands. I end up having to power-cycle > it every time I'm finished with a scanning session. > > I presume that the software is putting the device into scan mode and > th

[sane-devel] Re: [hpoj-devel] xsane and xscanimage crash system

2002-12-30 Thread David Paschal
Scott Savarese wrote: > When I am logged in as a normal (non-root) user xsane and xscanimage will > crash (freeze) the system. It looks like the kernel freezes as well. > > I am using the latest downloadable sane and xsane downloads (versions > 1.0.9 and 0.90) on an HP PSC 2210. I downloaded the l

[sane-devel] Re: [hpoj-devel] smp usb and hp office jet g85 not a good combination

2002-10-28 Thread David Paschal
Brent Hasty wrote: > I have went throught quite a bit of grief trying to get a hp office jet g85 > running on usb on my dual athlon liquid cooled terminal server. Causes real > erratic stability issues. Most of the time when booting into smp mode with > the g85 plugged into usb, the machine w

[sane-devel] "Multi-function" printers and scanners

2002-10-22 Thread David Paschal
Theodore Kilgore wrote: > Can anyone make recommendations about combination printer-scanner-copier > machines? There are a lot of cheap ones out there. For esample, our local > WalMart sells a Lexmark for about $170. I understand from checking out > www.linuxprinting.org that these cheap Lexmark pr

[sane-devel] Re: [hpoj-devel] Patch to show existense of hpoj backend.

2002-10-17 Thread David Paschal
for me to make changes in hpoj. > Further I suggest the SANE website maintainer to update the > http://www.mostang.com/sane/sane-backends.html > to reflect the changes (to man-pages) announced by David Paschal in > August, i.e. the existence of hpoj and recomend hpoj backend (opposed >

[sane-devel] USB scanners page.

2002-10-02 Thread David Paschal
Jonathan Buzzard wrote: > I have just uploaded an update to the "USB Scanners under Linux". I > would be grateful if people could check the page out an let me know > of any errors and or omissions. Hi, Jonathan. I took a look at both the parallel-port and USB pages. Could you add to both pages re

[sane-devel] resend: remove OfficeJet support from SANE hp backend

2002-08-30 Thread David Paschal
This is a multipart MIME message. --==_Exmh_933846500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi. Attached is a patch to remove OfficeJet support from the SANE "hp" backend and documentation, now that I have made a stable release of the new "hpoj" backend (http://hpoj.sourceforge.net), which

[sane-devel] Current TODO list

2002-08-30 Thread David Paschal
Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > * All backends should check for TL_X < BR_X and TL_Y < BR_Y to > avoid segfaults or even scanner damage. This should NOT be done > in sane_control_option, it should be possible to temporary set > TL_X > BR_X or TL_ > BR, otherwise it is hard for a fronte

[sane-devel] Re: [hpoj-devel] ADF on HP Office Jet G85, Continuous Mode?

2002-08-17 Thread David Paschal
Oliver Rauch wrote: > XSane expects that there is an option of the type SANE_CONSTRAINT_STRING_LIST > with the name SANE_NAME_SCAN_SOURCE(defined in saneopts.h). It uses this > option to define what source is the ADF. When there is no such option > then you can not enable the adf mode of xsane. Hi,

[sane-devel] bug report: ptal configure check

2002-08-10 Thread David Paschal
Hi, Walter. Thanks for pointing this out. In the past several people reported a similar problem, but I never knew that it was because of a missing "-lcrypto" linkage. This "shouldn't" be necessary, because libptal already has this linkage, but perhaps the order is wrong for certain situations be

[sane-devel] [patch] remove OfficeJet support from SANE hp backend

2002-08-08 Thread David Paschal
This is a multipart MIME message. --==_Exmh_-18871025340 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi. Attached is a patch to remove OfficeJet support from the SANE "hp" backend and documentation, now that I have made a stable release of the new "hpoj" backend (http://hpoj.sourceforge.net), whi

[sane-devel] [hpoj-announce] hpoj-0.90 is available

2002-08-07 Thread David Paschal
HP booth. If you are attending this show, then be sure to stop by and say "hello". :-) Please post questions, problem reports, or other feedback to the hpoj-devel mailing list. Thank you for your interest in this project. David Paschal (david_pasc...@hp.com and pasc...@rcsis.com) August 7, 2002

[sane-devel] [hpoj-devel] detecting sane-backends lib and etc directories

2002-07-13 Thread David Paschal
Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > I haven't looked at the actual code but the summary looks fine for me. > A bit paranoic, maybe :-) Considering how many bug reports I've gotten over the last two years as hpoj maintainer due to interactions with external software and various distributions, I've found

[sane-devel] xsane infinite recursion

2002-07-13 Thread David Paschal
Oliver Rauch wrote: > the infinite recursion will (should) be fixed in xsane-0.87. > It would be nice if you would test it when it is released and > give me feedback. Hi, Oliver. I temporarily changed the hpoj backend back to the way that was causing xsane to choke (geometry options as SANE_TYPE_I

[sane-devel] [hpoj-devel] detecting sane-backends lib and etc directories

2002-07-10 Thread David Paschal
Hi. Could somebody please review the following algorithm for detecting where sane-backends lib and etc directories are installed and let me know if there are any problems with it? This is for installing the external "hpoj" backend (http://hpoj.sourceforge.net), by setting a symlink from .../lib/s

[sane-devel] Problems with HP OfficeJet D145

2002-07-03 Thread David Paschal
Christian Folini wrote: > I worked through the step-by-step manual at > http://hpoj.sourceforge.net/hpoj-0.8/doc/setup-scan.html > > My /usr/local/etc/sane.d/hp.conf reads: > # USB-connected MFP: > mlc:usb:officejet_d_series > option connect-ptal > > Scanning produces: > > quewfield:/home/dune7

[sane-devel] Scanner/Printer/Fax combos

2002-05-16 Thread David Paschal
Danilo Godec wrote: > Are there any Scan/Print/Fax combos known to work with Sane? Specifically > the scanner part is of interest, as faxing is usually done internally and > printing really should work. Hi, Danilo. Most HP multi-function peripherals work. See http://hpoj.sourceforge.net. David

[hpoj-devel] [sane-devel] xsane infinite recursion

2002-05-03 Thread David Paschal
Oliver Rauch wrote: > David Paschal wrote: > > Or did you mean to say that the backend uses "int" instead of "float"? :-) > > > > So if the float->int round-up is the problem, then I should change the > > backend to use SANE_TYPE_FIXED(=2) for th

[hpoj-devel] [sane-devel] xsane infinite recursion

2002-04-30 Thread David Paschal
Oliver Rauch wrote: > The reason for this is simple and ugly. The version of the hpoj backend > you use defines the geometry options as float but when the frontend sets > a geometry value to e.g. 13.8 then the backend corrects this to 14.0 Actually, that's not true: > [xsane] xsane_get_option_des

[hpoj-devel] [sane-devel] scanimage segfault

2002-04-27 Thread David Paschal
Hi, scanimage segfaults in the following situation: - The backend has a boolean option (for example, "batch-scan") with SANE_CAP_AUTOMATIC. - The user passes the command-line option "--batch-scan" with no "=auto", "=yes", or "=no" suffix, which as suggested by the brackets in the "--help" sy

[hpoj-devel] [sane-devel] xsane infinite recursion

2002-04-27 Thread David Paschal
This is a multipart MIME message. --==_Exmh_5496210400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi, Oliver. With the hpoj backend (http://hpoj.sourceforge.net), xsane (0.86, 0.84, and likely other versions as well) gets into a state of infinite recursion when you switch from Scan to either Cop

[sane-devel] Problems with PSC 500. Please help.

2002-03-24 Thread David Paschal
Julian Coccia wrote: > I have installed and configured the software according with the > instructions, but I can not get the scanner to transmit images. > > xsane tells me: NO DEVICES AVAILABLE > scanimage --test says: scanimage: no SANE devices found ... > I do have connectivity with the scanner

[sane-devel] Re: new SANE hpoj backend

2002-03-17 Thread David Paschal
Michael Piotrowski wrote in response to me: > With "photo-card" you're referring to memory cards as used by digital > cameras? Yes. They can be addressed in sectors (typically 512 bytes/sector), and typically contain a FAT or VFAT file system to store files (images or otherwise). HP PhotoSmart pr

[sane-devel] new SANE hpoj backend

2002-03-17 Thread David Paschal
This is a multipart MIME message. --==_Exmh_9089434120 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote in response to me: > > How about if I put something like "(external)" for the version? > > I think that's ok. > > > For the > > model field, I could be more specific abo

[sane-devel] sanei_scsi.c compile error (Sg_scsi_id)

2002-03-06 Thread David Paschal
Hi, When compiling the latest CVS sane-backends on RedHat 6.2 (upgraded to kernel 2.2.18), I get the following error: gcc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../include -I../include -D_GNU_SOURCE -DPATH_SANE_CONFIG_DIR=/usr/local/etc/sane.d -DPATH_SANE_DATA_DIR=/usr/local/share -DV_MAJOR=1 -DV_MINOR=0

[sane-devel] new SANE hpoj backend

2002-03-04 Thread David Paschal
Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > Could you add a version number in brackets like "(0.12)"? This is the > usual way to make clear that the backend is nor included in the SANE > distribution. Wouldn't it be better to add the names of all currently > supported scanners as it was done in the hp backend?

[sane-devel] new SANE hpoj backend

2002-03-04 Thread David Paschal
This is a multipart MIME message. --==_Exmh_-19284503880 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi, I recently added a new "hpoj" SANE backend to the CVS repository of the HP OfficeJet Linux driver project (http://hpoj.sourceforge.net), with support for SANE-based scanning on almost all HP O

[sane-devel] HP PhotoSmart S20 USB & linux support from HP ?

2002-02-28 Thread David Paschal
> I'd ask if any have some information about support this scaner in linux ? > > Message forwarded by Meinhard Ritscher : > >Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 10:59:26 -0700 : > > HP is definitely working on providing drivers for scanners. > > > It would be fine, but ofical answer from HP says : > > "... H

[sane-devel] officejet scanning

2001-11-10 Thread David Paschal
Paulo Filipe Canha de Andrade wrote: > I have just spent 5 hours getting my officejet r45 (hp all-in-one > printing/scaning) to work in redhat 7.1. Printing is fine!:) But after > installing sane backends and frontends, xsane following the howto I > ended up with this: > > [paulinho@Unixuser pauli

[sane-devel] Re: [hpoj-devel] Installing hpoj 0.8... (SANE)

2001-08-21 Thread David Paschal
Hi, Alain. Offhand I don't know what the problem is, although I think it's normally not necessary (and possibly undesirable) to put /usr/local/lib/sane into ld.so.conf (/usr/local/lib should be enough). Also, make sure you don't already have another copy of SANE installed, especially one which wa

[sane-devel] hpoj-0.8 is available

2001-08-07 Thread David Paschal
8-30, 2001, demonstrating this new version of the hpoj software in the HP booth. If you are attending this show, then be sure to stop by and say "hello". :-) Please post questions, problem reports, or other feedback to the hpoj-devel mailing list. Thank you for your interest in this pro