[sane-devel] [PATCH] make scanimage work with HP ScanJet (HP 6250C), finally

[m. allan noah]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Jim Meyering <jim at meyering.net> wrote:
> Peter Kirchgessner <peter at kirchgessner.net> wrote:
>  > I have no problem if the usleep(1000) is added. If it helps, it's
>  > ok. For a typical scan about 200 inquiries are done. So setting up the
>  > scanner is slowed down by 0.2 seconds in total. That is far less than
>  > the scan will need.
>  > I don't know if it is possible with libusb to check if an answer of
>  > the scanner is available or not. But if you tried increasing the value
>  > and it still did not work every second run I would say there are still
>  > some other problems with USB. My ScanJet 6250 is working without
>  > problems for years using USB.
>
>  Thanks for looking at it.
>  Maybe we have different hardware, in spite of the
>  identical model numbers.  Mine is 9 or 10 years old.
>  I don't recall if I ever updated the driver.
>  Do you know which you have?
>
>
>  > Who will apply the patch to the official SANE-backends ?
>
>  Who do we prod? ;-)
>

i will do it now. however, there still seem to be some issues for me,
so i might find some time to play with it in the next few weeks, and
produce another patch. would you be willing to test that?

allan

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