sane-qcam.5

sane-qcam(5)             SANE Scanner Access Now Easy             sane-qcam(5)

NAME

       sane-qcam - SANE backend for Connectix QuickCam cameras

DESCRIPTION

       The sane-qcam library implements a SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) back-
       end that provides access Connectix QuickCam cameras.

DEVICE NAMES

       This backend expects device names of the form:

              port

       Where port is the I/O port address at which the device  resides.   This
       address  is  normally  specified  in  hexadecimal using C syntax (e.g.,
       0x37b) and may be prefixed with the letter "u" (e.g., u0x37b) to  force
       the backend to access the camera in uni-directional mode.

CONFIGURATION

       The contents of the qcam.conf file is a list port addresses that may be
       connected to a Connectix QuickCam.  Empty lines and everything starting
       from  a  hash  mark  (#) up to the end of a line are ignored.  A sample
       configuration file is shown below:

              0x37b  # /dev/lp0
              0x378  # /dev/lp1
              u0x278 # /dev/lp2 forced in uni-directional mode
              0x3bc  # /dev/lp0 (alternate address)

       In general, it is safest to list only the port  addresses  that  really
       correspond  to a QuickCam.  For example, if one of the listed addresses
       actually connect to a printer, then starting up this backend will cause
       the printer to perform a device reset (which is generally undesirable).

FILES

       /usr/local/etc/sane.d/qcam.conf
              The  backend  configuration  file  (see  also   description   of
              SANE_CONFIG_DIR below).

       /usr/local/lib/sane/libsane-qcam.a
              The static library implementing this backend.

       /usr/local/lib/sane/libsane-qcam.so
              The shared library implementing this backend (present 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 config-
              uration file is searched in two default directories: first,  the
              current     working     directory     (".")    and    then    in
              /usr/local/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 specified directo-
              ries.   For  example,  setting SANE_CONFIG_DIR to "/tmp/config:"
              would   result   in   directories   "tmp/config",    ".",    and
              "/usr/local/etc/sane.d" being searched (in this order).

       SANE_DEBUG_QCAM
              If  the  library  was  compiled with debug support enabled, this
              environment variable controls the debug level for this  backend.
              E.g.,  a  value  of 128 requests all debug output to be printed.
              Smaller levels reduce verbosity.

AUTHOR

       David Mosberger

BUGS

       Support is currently limited to the color version of the QuickCam.  The
       black-and-white  camera is starting to work too, but I don't believe it
       works in all cases yet.  Reportedly, acquiring images of certain  sizes
       work  fine,  but others result in shifted images (sounds like a problem
       due to byte-padding).

       The program needs root-privileges since it needs to be able  to  access
       the camera's I/O ports.

SEE ALSO

       sane(7)

sane-backends 1.0.18            25 October 1997                   sane-qcam(5)