[sane-devel] scanner buttons

2004-07-09 Thread David Stevenson
> ok, here's a crazy idea- why not just reload the entire option array every > few seconds? the backend then gets to decide what order to reload them in > (i.e. load the 'mode' switch first, then change all the mode params, then > load the 'scan' button press). > > is this nuts? > > allan >

[sane-devel] scanner buttons

2004-07-09 Thread David Stevenson
> ok, here's a crazy idea- why not just reload the entire option array every > few seconds? the backend then gets to decide what order to reload them in > (i.e. load the 'mode' switch first, then change all the mode params, then > load the 'scan' button press). > > is this nuts? > > allan > W

[sane-devel] [CanoScan5000f] Analyse of logs

2004-07-08 Thread David Stevenson
Thibault North wrote: > >> Unlikely, all things are possible but the windows driver will be >> reasonably efficient, and will not send the image more than it needs to. >> >> For a small image the calibration data may be larger than the image. >> You could try a larger scan - expect a very large

[sane-devel] [CanoScan5000f] Analyse of logs

2004-07-08 Thread David Stevenson
> I was wondering if the image data could be sent in may times, or if as > you suggest there is some calibration : indeed the Windows driver says : > "lamp adjusment, please wait" or something like that in French :) > Unlikely, all things are possible but the windows driver will be reasonably e

[sane-devel] discussion: Future of SANE-project

2004-07-06 Thread David Stevenson
m. allan noah wrote: > it is important to remember that the developers of sane are volunteers > just like you. most of us got involved because we had a lame scanner too. > we probably dont have time for such evangelism. But if someone was offering > that said, even if someone had the time to

[sane-devel] SANE and switching off the scanner lamp.

2004-05-10 Thread David Stevenson
is there a safe way to detect when the > lamp is ready to scan? maybe during coarse calibration?) > This is going to be very scanner dependent. I have done this for the GT68xx backend by using the coarse calibration test every 500msec and waiting till the result is unchanging. David

[sane-devel] Xsane startup problems

2003-07-03 Thread david stevenson
On Thursday 03 July 2003 1:57 am, Farhan Ahmed wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running Mandrake 9.1 on my Athlon system. When I initially installed > Mandrake, Xsane was configured perfectly automatically and I had no > problems using my Lexmark X73 flatbed scanner. But then I had to move to a > new place and

[sane-devel] Manufactures

2003-06-20 Thread david stevenson
Excellent, What instant service. Now all we need is manufactures to read it and start writing backends 8-) Thanks David > Ok, what about this one: > > http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/misc/manufacturers.html > > There is now also a page that explains the SANE license: > > http://www.meier-geinitz.

[sane-devel] Manufactures

2003-06-20 Thread david stevenson
On Friday 20 June 2003 12:35 pm, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 11:27:37AM +0100, david stevenson wrote: > > and it occurred to me that it may help to have a page directed at > > manufactures to explain how they can get their scanner supported

[sane-devel] Manufactures

2003-06-20 Thread david stevenson
Henning and all, I was rereading your >Some links on how to write a SANE driver: >http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/misc/unsupported.html >http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/misc/develop.html and it occurred to me that it may help to have a page directed at manufactures to explain how they can ge

[sane-devel] "gamma" and "bayer" ? What are they?

2003-06-12 Thread david stevenson
On Thursday 12 June 2003 6:55 pm, Theodore Kilgore wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, [iso-8859-1] Thomas VIAL wrote: > > Hi, > Again, yes. My point was that a string of bytes equal in number to the > number of pixels in the picture will give precisely no good result, but > that on the other hand putti

[sane-devel] Proposal: Change of the backend and model status strings

2003-06-07 Thread david stevenson
Here are 2 personal opinions On Friday 06 June 2003 7:18 pm, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote:> > There has been some criticism of the current handling of the :status > keywords in the .desc files. These filse are used to create our lists > of scanners and the output of the scanner search engine. > > W

[sane-devel] DLL backend doesn't work on 680x0 machines

2003-04-12 Thread david stevenson
> > I never was very good with declaring pointers to functions; it's > > possible that I have some misplaced parentheses or something. > > Same here. Maybe one of the other developers has a better idea :-) Me too, but I once met a man who had the magic. His advice was use #typedef then you do no

[sane-devel] Re: scanner.o modules

2003-03-14 Thread david stevenson
> Still I don't see any problem with the autoloading of the scanner > module. > Is this a matter of leaving the light on? I can not see any problem with the scanner being "on" from the usb point of view, but not running the light source for weeks on end. Do all backends allow lamp off option? Dav

[sane-devel] Movie size

2003-03-06 Thread david stevenson
Whoops sorry all The previous message was not intended for the list at all, a mouse click error.

[sane-devel] Movie size

2003-03-06 Thread david stevenson
The first attempt was with 7bit encoding that made the file size 5.2meg and bounced. The second attempt has not bounced and is 8bit raw file 3.9meg, so I guess your mail box is 5meg. Question is can you watch the movie, or did the 8bit screw up? David

[sane-devel] HP5470c scanner nearly working!

2003-02-21 Thread David Stevenson
On Wednesday 19 February 2003 10:52 pm, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > This is only a test program, not a backend. Things still to do: > 1. Actually use results of calibration scans. Anyone who has an idea how > scanners are calibrated, point me at some info, please. Martin I did some work on gain

[sane-devel] Scanner Basics

2002-11-17 Thread David Stevenson
On Saturday 16 November 2002 10:08 pm, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > Hi, > * Put "scanner" in /etc/modules (works on Debian and Mandrake) > * Add "modprobe scanner" to /etc/rc.d/rc.local or similar (RedHat) > putting a file called module containing the single word scanner in /etc/usbmgr/055f/021

[sane-devel] New backend: gt68xx for some Mustek USB scanners

2002-09-17 Thread David Stevenson
Thankyou and well done. Quick first test with scanimage shows it to work as Sergey's test prog did on the 1200TA. One bug from that I have failed to fix is the offset for top left origin is odd. using default 0,0 includes 4mm of extra margin on image, -l4 gets left margin correct but moves top

[sane-devel] USB scanner module ioctl

2002-01-21 Thread David Stevenson
had time to send the request to the unit and wait for a reply? David Stevenson

[sane-devel] Help with usb scanner module

2002-01-17 Thread David Stevenson
I am trying to find my way round to write a Bearpaw 1200TA driver. So here are some queries that I am stuck on. I am loading "modprobe scanner" and sane-find-scanner then reports sane-find-scanner: found USB scanner (vendor = 0x055f, product = 0x021e) at device /dev/usb/scanner0 sane-find-scann

[sane-devel] BearPaw 1200TA

2002-01-02 Thread David Stevenson
I would like to write a driver for this USB scanner, but I am somewhat short on experience of sane. (and several other details 8-) ) I have looked a Henning's drivers and the 1200TA is quite different from the 1200 he has done. Does anyone else have a 1200TA? David Stevenson