[sane-devel] Re: sane build on tru64 unix 5.1A

[Major A]

Philip,

> Our webmaster has one and it wouldn't hurt.  Appreciate your insight
> however.

OK, in this case I'd try getting it to work with gphoto2 first, if
that fails, SANE will not be able to do any better.

> ->> Do I need ieee1284.h or something else.
> 
> ->For gphoto2? I don't think so. If you have a parallel-port scanner,
> ->probably yes.
> 
> I'll worry about that later.  For now, I'll pass.

Actually, I just realized that you may be running towards a dead end
here. What is the hardware you want to use with SANE? What connection
does it use? A while back, I tried to run SANE on Tru64 myself. I
failed, here is why:

- SCSI: officially (DEC/Compaq), SCSI scanners are not supported by
  Tru64. SANE does have support for Tru64 support, but it's rather
  fragile (at least 1.0.4 wasn't stable on Tru64 4.0E, IIRC).

- USB and IEEE-1394 are unsupported by Tru64 anyway, as far as I know.

- I don't think you can do anything useful with the Tru64 parallel
  port apart from printing to a printer.

- that leaves the only useable port the serial port, and I know that
  that works under Tru64 pretty much the same way as under Linux.

The way I do it at the moment is to have a Linux machine act as a scan
server, using the SCSI bus to connect to a scanner. The Tru64 machines
just use the net backend to connect to it. If you use a similar
set-up, you will not need all the ieee1284, jpeg, and gphoto2 stuff
under Tru64 anyway. And most of this should be trivial under Linux
(which runs on the scan server).

  Andras

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