plustek: Genius Colorpage Vivid III
Subject:
Re: Genius Colorpage Vivid III
From:
Trev Jackson ####@####.####
Date:
30 Nov 2005 18:16:46 +0000
Message-Id: <200511301817.37571.trev@g7pvs.freeserve.co.uk>
On Wednesday 30 Nov 2005 14:00, Gerhard Jaeger wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 November 2005 13:17, Trev Jackson wrote:
> > On Wednesday 30 Nov 2005 07:26, Gerhard Jaeger wrote:
> > > On Monday 28 November 2005 06:50, Maria Del Monte wrote:
> > > > Hi
> > > >
> > > > I have a parport Genius Colorpage Vivid III and I tried the plustek
> > > > backend with it, but it doesn't work. The resulting images are
> > > > terrible. Searching the list I found a mail [1] from 2 years ago
> > > > describing the same problem.
> > > >
> > > > I would like to know the status of this project, if it's still under
> > > > active development. I can provide some samples and debugging
> > > > information and some help in solving this issue.
> > > >
> > > > Regards
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > the project is still maintained, but as I don't have a Genius Vivid III
> > > available here on my desk, I could not improve the driver - sorry. I
> > > tried to get one of those devices via eBay, but had no success so far
> > > :(
> > >
> > > I guess the calibration stuff need to be setup correctly.
> > >
> > > Gerhard
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I also have one of these and tried to get it working under linux sometime
> > ago, I tried to capture the data sent to the scanner in windows, but the
> > capture program could not manage it.
> >
> > I would be interested in getting it working, I have done some programming
> > and used an i2c capture device with my Adaptec AVC-2410 video capture
> > card and have now added support for the card to the ivtv project, with
> > some programming assistance from someone with a different Adaptec card.
> >
> > Is there a similar method of capturing data (using a separate computer to
> > capture the data) for the parallel port so I could get the data that way?
> >
> > Best Regards
> >
> > Trev
>
> Hmmm,
>
> I'm not sure if either WINE or VMWare might be an option to do this
> tracking here. Probably VMWARE + a tweaked Linux parport driver might do
> the trick...
>
> My 2 cents
> Gerhard
>
Hi Gerhard
When I did the i2c monitoring I used the parallel port on a second computer to
monitor a two wire bus on my video capture card. I thought I would modify
the same software (lmilk-0.20 which is released under GNU GPL 2.0) to allow
me to capture the parallel port data.
I thought I would make up a special cable to connect the computer to the
scanner with a buffer chip interfacing to the parallel port on a second
computer to allow me to capture the data.
I have not read through the plustek_pp code yet and so would be gratful if you
would let me know which pins on the parallel port I need to monitor so I can
sort out lmilk first and worry about doing something with the data later.
Best Regards
Trev
