Note to testers of F10: scanbuttond

[John Summerfield]

Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 09:28:45AM +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
>> However, it doesn't seem to recognise my scanner,
> 
> Some scanners require loading firmware and for some this is just
> a question of adding identifiers to configuration files. I know
> nothing about your scanner so I cannot give you a specific advice.
> Look at various files in /etc/sane.d.

The LJ3052 works perfectly fine, it's just the scanbuttond package has 
problems


> 
>>  and even it it did it 
>> would not work. It calls scanimage with the argument "-depth 8" and 
>> scanimage, in F9, does not understand that.
> 
> It does, provided this is '--depth' and not '-depth'.  The catch is
> that this is among "Options specific to device" and 'scanimage -h'
> will print that only when it will find a device and its driver.
> With that particular scanner I have around it shows
> 
>     --depth 16|14|12|8
This from my .bash_history. The first failed, the second worked (and 
produced a very large file!).

scanimage --mode Color --resolution 1200 --depth 8  -x 210 -y 297 >tmp/image
scanimage --mode Color --resolution 1200   -x 210 -y 297 >tmp/image


> 
> among many other "specific" options.  If I will use 'epson'
> instead of 'epson2' driver, which is possible in this particular
> case, then available depths are reduced to only 16 and 8.
> 
>> At the very least, "--depth" has to be removed from the scanimage 
>> command
> 
> That would be likely undesirable and hopefuly nobody will take you on that.
> OTOH see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=383131
> and a discussion there.  That script was obviously meant for a
> customization but the last time I looked there, and this was a while
> ago, that was not done in a very thoughtfull manner.
> 
>    Michal
> 

Until it works, the package should be removed. It's useless as is. I 
didn't know it had been broken for so long.





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