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<h1>Re: Umax 1200S on LinuxPPC R5</h1>
<b>Oliver Rauch</b> (<a href="mailto:oliver.rauch@Wolfsburg.DE"><i>oliver.rauch@Wolfsburg.DE</i></a>)<br>
<i>Sat, 26 Jun 1999 09:33:09 +0200</i>
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Hugo van der Kooij wrote:<br>
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<i>&gt; On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Oliver Rauch wrote:</i><br>
<i>&gt;</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; Hugo van der Kooij wrote:</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt;</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; &gt; On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Simon Piette wrote:</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; &gt;</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; Oliver Rauch wrote:</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt;</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; I don`t know if SANE is tested on a big endian machine.</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; May be there are problems too. I am not sure if the umax</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; backend is tested on a big endian machine.</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; But if the inquiry command returns with an error</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; the problem is in the sanei/scsi or in the sg or scsi driver.</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt;</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; This is what I am thinking. This is not the first time we (linuxppc</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; users) have</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; that kind of problem with little/big endian (eg. sound). I'll check with</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; the</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; Linux PowerPC team ...</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; &gt;</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; &gt; If I am not mistaken then the ALpha is also a big-endian. And I have SANE</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; &gt; working on that with tha HP backend.</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt;</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; do you have a scsi or a parallel scanner ?</i><br>
<i>&gt;</i><br>
<i>&gt; I'm strictly SCSI.</i><br>
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Hi Hugo,<br>
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if you are not sure if your computer is a big endian machine,<br>
do<br>
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  export SANE_DEBUG_UMAX=10<br>
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and then start (x)scanimage or xsane, at the beginning<br>
the umax backend prints the endianess of the machine on which<br>
it is running!<br>
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Bye<br>
Oliver<br>
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