sane-dc25(5) SANE Scanner Access Now Easy sane-dc25(5)NAMEsane-dc25 - SANE backend for Kodak DC20/DC25 Digital Cam-
eras
DESCRIPTION
The sane-dc25 library implements a SANE (Scanner Access
Now Easy) backend that provides access to Kodak DC20 and
DC25 cameras. At present, only the DC25 has been tested,
but since the code is based on a DC20 interface program,
it is likely to work for that model also.
DEVICE NAMES
The current version of the backend only allows one camera
to be connected. The device name is always "0".
CONFIGURATION
The contents of the dc25.conf specify the serial port and
baud rate to use. The baud rate specifies the maximum
rate to use while downloading pictures. (The camera is
always initialized using 9600 baud, then switches to the
higher rate). On my 90MHz Pentium, I usually have no
problems downloading at 115200 baud as long as the system
is not excessively busy and the "interrupt-unmask flag" is
set in the IDE driver (hdparm -u1). Supported baud rates
are: 9600, 19200, 38400, 57600, and 115200.
The dumpinquiry line causes some information about the
camera to be printed to stderr during startup. Note:
This is not compatible with saned, so make sure you don't
have any dumpinquiry lines if you are using saned (i.e.
scanning on a remote machine using a network).
Empty lines and lines starting with a hash mark (#) are
ignored. A sample configuration file is shown below:
port=/dev/ttyS0
# this is a comment
baud=115200
dumpinquiry
FILES
/usr/freeware/etc/sane.d/dc25.conf
The backend configuration file (see also descrip-
tion of SANE_CONFIG_DIR below).
/usr/freeware/lib32/sane/libsane-dc25.a
The static library implementing this backend.
/usr/freeware/lib32/sane/libsane-dc25.so
The shared library implementing this backend (pre-
sent on systems that support dynamic loading).
ENVIRONMENT
SANE_CONFIG_DIR
This environment variable specifies the list of
directories that may contain the configuration
file. Under UNIX, the directories are separated by
a colon (`:'), under OS/2, they are separated by a
semi-colon (`;'). If this variable is not set, the
configuration file is searched in two default
directories: first, the current working directory
(".") and then in /usr/freeware/etc/sane.d. If the
value of the environment variable ends with the
directory separator character, then the default
directories are searched after the explicitly spec-
ified directories. For example, setting SANE_CON-
FIG_DIR to "/tmp/config:" would result in directo-
ries "tmp/config", ".", and "/usr/free-
ware/etc/sane.d" being searched (in this order).
SANE_DEBUG_DC25
If the library was compiled with debugging support
enabled, this environment variable controls the
debug level for this backend. A value of 128
requests maximally copious debug output; smaller
levels reduce verbosity.
SEE ALSOsane(7)AUTHOR
Peter Fales, dc25-devel@fales-lorenz.net
BUGS
Known bugs/limitations are:
I haven't figured out how to trigger an option reload fol-
lowing a "scan." This causes problems when a new picture
is snapped for example, the slider that is used to select
the picture from the camera may not be updated immedi-
ately.
More general comments, suggestions, and inquiries about
frontends or SANE should go to the SANE Developers mailing
list (see http://www.mostang.com/sane/mail.html for
details). You must be subscribed to the list, otherwise
your mail won't be sent to the subscribers.
sane-backends 1.0.12 12 April 1999 sane-dc25(5)
