[sane-devel] scanadf --help (setting of option --br-x failed)

[Jelle de Jong]

m. allan noah wrote:
> Well, we don't produce the hpaio backend. perhaps you could ask the hplip folks?
> 
> allan
> 
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Jelle de Jong
> <jelledejong at powercraft.nl> wrote:
>> Hi Allan,
>>
>> m. allan noah wrote:
>>> what scanner and backend?
>>>
>>> allan
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Jelle de Jong
>>> <jelledejong at powercraft.nl> wrote:
>>>> Hello everybody,
>>>>
>>>> I got the below failure when running scanadf --help, I also tested
>>>> scanimage --help and that command worked fine.
>>>>
>>>> Should I make a debian bug report for this? or somethings else?
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>>
>>>> Jelle
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> scanadf --help
>>>> Usage: scanadf [OPTION]...
>>>>
>>>> Start image acquisition on a scanner device and write image data to
>>>> output files.
>>>>
>>>> � �[ -d | --device-name <device> ] � use a given scanner device.
>>>> � �[ -h | --help ] � � � � � � � � � display this help message and exit.
>>>> � �[ -L | --list-devices ] � � � � � show available scanner devices.
>>>> � �[ -v | --verbose ] � � � � � � � �give even more status messages.
>>>> � �[ -V | --version ] � � � � � � � �print version information.
>>>> � �[ -N | --no-overwrite ] � � � � � don't overwrite existing files.
>>>>
>>>> � �[ -o | --output-file <name> ] � � name of file to write image data
>>>> � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � �(%d replacement in output file
>>>> name).
>>>> � �[ -S | --scan-script <name> ] � � name of script to run after every
>>>> scan.
>>>> � �[ --script-wait ] � � � � � � � � wait for scripts to finish
>>>> before exit
>>>> � �[ -s | --start-count <num> ] � � �page count of first scanned image.
>>>> � �[ -e | --end-count <num> ] � � � �last page number to scan.
>>>> � �[ -r | --raw ] � � � � � � � � � �write raw image data to file.
>>>> scanadf: setting of option --br-x failed (Invalid argument)
>>>>
>>>> scanadf --version
>>>> scanadf (sane-frontends) 1.0.14
>>>>
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>> hmm, i forgot to write down the scanner, when i made the report, sorry
>> for this. I think its a: HP Photosmart C4280 AIO
>>
>> these scanners work btw with scanadf --help both tested
>>
>> hpaio:/usb/Officejet_J5700_series?serial=CN7BOCF3HP04TC
>> hpaio:/usb/Officejet_7200_series?serial=MY71OK71S604HQ
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Jelle de Jong

Thank you allan for the information, I am curious, why is the hpaio
backend separated from the sane development team, it very annoying i have
a few outstanding bugs someway related to hpaio or hplip with cups.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=517083
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=516982
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=513493

As far as I know HP is the only vendor that tells to support linux
printing, but the way that do it seems to be counter effective, do they
work with upstream? How about QA? Why not merge with sane and cups?

I would really like to see all hp scanner and printers be merged with
sane and cups so there is one system that supports multiple backends.

Any thoughts?

Best regards,

Jelle