primax: D600 and new prerelease
Subject:
Re: D600 and new prerelease
From:
Andre Herms ####@####.####
Date:
7 Oct 2002 19:18:33 -0000
Message-Id: <200210072115.19668.aherms@cs.uni-magdeburg.de>
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On Monday 07 October 2002 21:49, Mike Rothon wrote:
> I have downloaded the prelease and have the following news / notes:
>
> 1. The program segfaults if run by a non-super-user. I know that this is
> because of the use of inb, but I am sure that earlier versions exited
> gracefully with a warning message.
Jupp - There is a check missing :-(.
> In the function calibrate_LM9811 there is the line...
>
> calibration->image = X_RESOLUTION;
>
> ...if I change this to...
>
> calibration->image = 300;
>
> then the scanner calibrates and works perfectly.
Great that it works. Can you send a patch or explain exactly what you did.
> 4. The program hangs if I set the resolution to anything greater than 300.
> I am sure that this is related to the previous problem. I believe that the
> problem is in prepare_scanner(). I will investigate further over the next
> couple of days and report back to this mailing list.
Please try to find out some more. I don't have a 600 so I cannot do it myself.
> 5. I can't seem to print via the feed through on the scanner. This works
> under Windows so I don't think that I have a cabling / compatibility issue.
A Multiplexing would be needed. Maybe the parport driver in the linux kernel
can handle this. I've not tried it yet.
> 6. A question. Is there a way to put the driver into daemon mode as per the
> old primaxd? I would ideally like to have the scanner attached to my
> server.
Yes it is. Simply use saned. This way you can also use the scanner as
non-root.
> 7. Another question. When using the Sane driver, does the software still
> read the calibration file? I haven't figured out how to dump debug strings
> to the console from the Sane driver so it is difficult to see what is going
> on.
It uses the calibration data. It's stored in "/tmp/.primax.calib".
You can dump debug strings via printf. Use XSane with root permissions.
> Thanks again for the hard work on this project. I cannot express how happy
> I am that I can scan under Linux!!!
Would be great if we could make the D600 work.
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Andre Herms ####@####.####
http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~aherms
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