[sane-devel] Umax Astra 2100U color problem, would like to he lp

[Patrick Lessard]

Hello,

Thanks for your answer. Rest of the answers are inline.

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : sane-devel-bounces at lists.alioth.debian.org
> [mailto:sane-devel-bounces at lists.alioth.debian.org]De la part 
> de Henning
> Meier-Geinitz
> Envoyé : 17 octobre, 2005 13:30
> À : sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Objet : Re: [sane-devel] Umax Astra 2100U color problem, would like to
> help
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 01:16:03PM -0400, Patrick Lessard wrote:
> > I own a Astra 2100U and as everyone knows, compatibility is 
> almost complete
> > with this model.
> 
> Well, status is "minimal".

The scans output are not usable, but according to the last developper, it
should be only a matter of color calibration.
All of the other functions are working 100%.

> 
> > I would like to try to help solving the color problem.
> 
> Sounds good. Helps means that you must write a patch to fix the
> problem, I guess :-)


Yes, that's my goal! :)

> 
> > My C/C++ is very rusted, but I can try anyway.
> 
> Only C is necessary.

Good!

> 
> > Any recommendations of getting things started? What are the 
> tools I should
> > use to test, debug, etc...
> 
> I don't know anything about that scanner but generally speaking, I'd
> look at what the Windows driver does and adjust the backend so it
> works correctly:
> http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/misc/develop.html
> 
> And you need the source code of sane-backends, obviously.
> 
> > If any more skilled programmers would like to help or do it 
> :), I can do the
> > tests, no problem.
> 
> As the maintainer of this backend is not active anymore it's most
> probably up to you to fix this problem. If you have any specific
> questions, feel free to ask on this list.
> 


Thanks for the link, it should get me started.

I'll try to post in here as soon as I have some imporvements.

Patrick.

> Bye,
>   Henning
> 
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