[sane-devel] Sorry, another one before x-mas... GIMP!

2003-12-23 Thread Wolfgang Fabics
Sorry to bug u again, I feel somehow stupid already... but I *really* did not find it in any manuals. The question is: How do I compile xsane with gimp support? I did what I could imagine to get it working (all flags set, all the libs, header files asf. installed correctly) but xsane keeps compla

[sane-devel] saned on Gentoo 1.4: disable IPv6?

2003-12-22 Thread Wolfgang Fabics
Thanx a lot, Henning... you gave me the right idea. It's a local resolver/DNS config problem... gonna look into that. Commented the "only from" line in xinetd.conf and now it works. Thank you, and wonderful christmas holidays to y'all! :-) -wolfgang

[sane-devel] saned on Gentoo 1.4: disable IPv6?

2003-12-22 Thread Wolfgang Fabics
Julien, Henning, Thanks a bunch for the insight! Some questions remain, though... if I may: > If it does not start at all, that's usually an xinetd configuration > problem. saned is only started when you connect to the port, not when > xinetd is loaded. That is exactly why i use xinetd for start

[sane-devel] saned on Gentoo 1.4: disable IPv6?

2003-12-22 Thread Wolfgang Fabics
Hi all, Maybe this is even somehow related to Jim George's problem... here's what gives: - Local scanning thru the parport as root works just fine (mustek_pp backend). But ofc I want to use saned... - Tried to start saned (as usual) from xinetd, which started without errors... but saned did

[sane-devel] Medion MD9850: scan range & noise probs?

2003-10-30 Thread Wolfgang Fabics
e...@tiscali.be wrote: > That's quite impossible, unless there is a serious bug in the driver. > This type of scanner is pretty dumb and it doesn't move unless the driver > tells it to move (and the driver never tells it to track back). Hummm... so you mean, the stepping motor is directly control

[sane-devel] Medion MD9850: scan range & noise probs?

2003-10-30 Thread Wolfgang Fabics
Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > Maybe it's just backtracking? I.e. the scanner is too fast for the > parallel port. Does the scan head stop shortly when the noise occurs? > Or does it even move backe some milimeters? Hmmm... hard to say, the steps are very small, ofc. It doesn't move back. I'd say

[sane-devel] Medion MD9850: scan range & noise probs?

2003-10-30 Thread Wolfgang Fabics
Wolfgang Fabics wrote: > I'll try... stepping back a few meters and closing my eyes ;-) Thanks, Eddy! One problem solved: cis1200 gives me the correct scan range :-) > I'll give it a try with cis1200 and report back. Bridge here, status report: Still positive on the clankin

[sane-devel] Medion MD9850: scan range & noise probs?

2003-10-30 Thread Wolfgang Fabics
e...@tiscali.be wrote: > Are you sure that the MD9850 is a 600CP clone? Well, I looked up the FCC# at http://www.fcc.gov and the exhibit there (user manual) says it is a 600CP. sane-1.0.9 recognized it as 600IIIP, sane-1.0.12 also says it is a 600CP... > AFAIK, it is a 1200CP clone. The problem

[sane-devel] Medion MD9850: scan range & noise probs?

2003-10-29 Thread Wolfgang Fabics
Hi all, Just upgraded to 1.0.12, now my MD9850 finally works locally & over the net... nearly (congrats, guys!). Two issues remain: - The frontends are done with scanning a page when the scanner itself is only about halfway thru it (so I get a vertically strechted image of the upper half of the o