Re: Umax 1200S on LinuxPPC R5

Oliver Rauch (oliver.rauch@Wolfsburg.DE)
Sat, 26 Jun 1999 09:33:09 +0200

Hugo van der Kooij wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Oliver Rauch wrote:
>
> > Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Simon Piette wrote:
> > >
> > > > Oliver Rauch wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > I don`t know if SANE is tested on a big endian machine.
> > > > > May be there are problems too. I am not sure if the umax
> > > > > backend is tested on a big endian machine.
> > > > > But if the inquiry command returns with an error
> > > > > the problem is in the sanei/scsi or in the sg or scsi driver.
> > > >
> > > > This is what I am thinking. This is not the first time we (linuxppc
> > > > users) have
> > > > that kind of problem with little/big endian (eg. sound). I'll check with
> > > > the
> > > > Linux PowerPC team ...
> > >
> > > If I am not mistaken then the ALpha is also a big-endian. And I have SANE
> > > working on that with tha HP backend.
> >
> > do you have a scsi or a parallel scanner ?
>
> I'm strictly SCSI.

Hi Hugo,

if you are not sure if your computer is a big endian machine,
do

export SANE_DEBUG_UMAX=10

and then start (x)scanimage or xsane, at the beginning
the umax backend prints the endianess of the machine on which
it is running!

Bye
Oliver

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