primax: Thread: Driver for the Primax Colorado Direct 9600 Scanner

Hello all,

Finally there is a Linux driver for the Direct 9600 scanner.

Take a look at
http://home2.swipnet.se/~w-25069/pxscan-0.1.html

This driver is more like a workbench than a tidy program for
the moment but I don't have the time needed to finish it in
the
near future so better publish it now and see what happens.

Please note that this is my messy version. Don't blame the 
people that made the original version.


Good luck

Gustaf Kröling

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On 24-Mar-00 Gustaf Kroling wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Finally there is a Linux driver for the Direct 9600 scanner.
> 
> Take a look at
> http://home2.swipnet.se/~w-25069/pxscan-0.1.html
> 
> This driver is more like a workbench than a tidy program for
> the moment but I don't have the time needed to finish it in
> the
> near future so better publish it now and see what happens.
> 
> Please note that this is my messy version. Don't blame the 
> people that made the original version.
> 

sounds really great. Is it fully written from scratch or based on our code? 
If the last, it'd be quite interesting to hear about the changes you had to apply to
our code.

I'll go and get it... testing may happen this weekend, but my time is really limited, so
nothing is promised.

cu.


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Christian Ordig wrote:
> 
> On 24-Mar-00 Gustaf Kroling wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Finally there is a Linux driver for the Direct 9600 scanner.
> >
> > Take a look at
> > http://home2.swipnet.se/~w-25069/pxscan-0.1.html

> sounds really great. Is it fully written from scratch or based on our code?
> If the last, it'd be quite interesting to hear about the changes you had to apply to
> our code.
> 

Hi,

I started with your code but after a long time I finally got
an extra machine
running win95 so I could trace the transfers to/from the
scanner. It turned out
that the scanner has 32 registers among other things. So
after some time I had
made a mess of the old code and replaced much of it.

Gustaf

Gustaf Kroling wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> Finally there is a Linux driver for the Direct 9600 scanner.
> 
> Take a look at
> http://home2.swipnet.se/~w-25069/pxscan-0.1.html

	Wow, really great! :)

> 
> This driver is more like a workbench than a tidy program for
> the moment but I don't have the time needed to finish it in
> the
> near future so better publish it now and see what happens.
> 
> Please note that this is my messy version. Don't blame the
> people that made the original version.


	But I have a bad news.. :(   It doesnt work for my scanner (Colorado
Direct 9600)

	I cant get the light on with it. When I type -lon, the driver thinks
the scanner light got on, but I didnt. So, when I try to scan something
the "light" move about 1cm..

	When I run ./pxscan -d1x1 -r300 -v2 I get
parse_options:
  dimension:        1.0x1.0 inch
  resolution:           300 dpi
pxscan version 0.1
Probing port 0378
    SPP port present
    PS/2 bidirectional port present
    EPP 1.7
Read: 196 194 190 Offsetregs set to: 80 80 80
Read: 155 153 149 Offsetregs set to: c0 c0 c0
Read: 135 133 129 Offsetregs set to: e0 e0 e0
Read: 38 1 0 Offsetregs set to: f0 e0 d0
Read: 0 1 13 Offsetregs set to: e8 e0 d8
Read: 0 1 0 Offsetregs set to: e4 e0 d4
Read: 7 0 0 Offsetregs set to: e4 de d2
Read: 3 13 1 Offsetregs set to: e4 df d2

	Could some one run with -v2 and send me the output?? 

	Btw, with some adjusts in the driver primax_scan-0.2 I can get the
scanner thinks he is scanning (in the primax_scan-0.2 driver) and I also
get the light on and off with pxscan.

	I have two computers and a medium knowledge about C (I never programed
through the paralel port). If some one explain me how to trace the
paralel port, maybe I could get some adjusts for my scanner..

	Is there someone more in this list that can't get the pxscan work with
a Direct 9600???

	[]'s