plustek: It's alive! (was: Re: Epson 1250)
Subject:
Re: It's alive! (was: Re: Epson 1250)
From:
Gene Heskett ####@####.####
Date:
23 Dec 2001 21:56:38 -0000
Message-Id: <20011223215026213.AAA78@mail.iolinc.net@there>
A small update guys.
I found some code called 'lm9832' on one of the links somebody
sent me. This code did control the light, even turning it off
when you selected the exit from the pulldown.
But it wouldn't run the scanner. So I've kinda played
mix-n-match for those motor control values that I thought were
working in the plustek code.
Reinard: The can't open device stuff you got is group & owner on
the devices, change group to something that exists as a user.
I'm still getting a bunch of un-initilized stuff warnings from
the compiler, but it did just now do about half a page in the
preview mode (which acted like it was some superhigh mode, slow,
stopped several times before it hung the usb ports, note plural,
I had to reboot to restore my usb mouse on another port.
But the scanned image as it was painted in the preview window
appeared to be about the right color albeit over bright and
bleached. And the lamp was shut off at some point, its off now,
but still sitting about halfway down the page where it locked
everything up.
Now I'm gonna run it again to see it it homes the carriage
properly.
It did, but the home motion was somewhat slower than I would have
thought, the motor hummed pretty good and took about 6 seconds to
reach the home position, but it didn't sound as if it actually
hit anything when it did.
I need ftp (or cvs maybe) write perms someplace where I can
stash what I've got so far (I'm on a dialup) with gftp or cvs so
others interested in this can poke and prod it too. Even cvs
would be ok if I can learn how to cause a cvs merge.
Somebody running a ps2 mouse could probably clean house on a
lockup without a reboot, but thats what I get here and I *_love_*
this usb optical mouse. :-)
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Cheers, Gene
