Lew Wolfgang writes:

Hi Andreas,

I just tried Vuescan with a Canon LiDE 30, which Vuescan is supposed to support. Alas, it couldn't find the scanner when Kooka had no problems. Some IOCTL error messages appeared in /var/log/messages, which might indicate a rather fundamental problem at the ABI level? This on a dual-processor Tyan Opteron mobo.

Here are the errors:

Feb 2 15:06:16 rigel kernel: ioctl32(vuescan:2341): Unknown cmd fd(6) cmd(80045520){00} arg(ffffc07c) on /dev/usb/scanner0 Feb 2 15:06:16 rigel kernel: ioctl32(vuescan:2341): Unknown cmd fd(6) cmd(800475a0){00} arg(ffffc07c) on /dev/usb/scanner0 Feb 2 15:06:16 rigel kernel: ioctl32(vuescan:2341): Unknown cmd fd(6) cmd(80045521){00} arg(ffffc078) on /dev/usb/scanner0 Feb 2 15:06:16 rigel kernel: ioctl32(vuescan:2341): Unknown cmd fd(6) cmd(800475a1){00} arg(ffffc078) on /dev/usb/scanner0

This means that some ioctls are only implemented for 64-bit code but not in the 32-bit ioctl conversion routines, Andreas

Regards, Lew Wolfgang

Andreas Huennebeck wrote:

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Hi everybody, I like to know whether vuescan (a scan program written by Ed Hamrick) runs on AMD64 and if so, if it runs on 32 Bit Linux or 64 Bit Linux or both. Unfortunately Ed Hamrick could not answer these questions. Now, if somebody here owns an AMD64, a scanner (preferably SCSI) and has some spare time, could he please download the trial version of vuescan at http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html und try it? The advantage is that currently (for a limited time) Ed gives the Standard Version of Vuescan free for personal use on Linux, so anybody owning a scanner gets a very good scan program for free. Thanks a lot Andreas

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On Tuesday 03 February 2004 00:53, Lew Wolfgang wrote:

I just tried Vuescan with a Canon LiDE 30, which Vuescan is supposed to support. Alas, it couldn't find the scanner when Kooka had no problems. Some IOCTL error messages appeared in /var/log/messages, which might indicate a rather fundamental problem at the ABI level? This on a dual-processor Tyan Opteron mobo.

Here are the errors:

Feb 2 15:06:16 rigel kernel: ioctl32(vuescan:2341): Unknown cmd fd(6) cmd(80045520){00} arg(ffffc07c) on /dev/usb/scanner0

[..] OK, USB support on Linux still seems to be a problem with vuescan. I'm wondering though, what would happen with a SCSI scanner. I own an Epson GT-7000 (SCSI) which works nice with both xsane and vuescan, but my Minolta Dimage Scan Dual (SCSI) slide scanner is AFAIK supported by vuescan only - and I like the quality of vuescan. I think I shall buy an AMD64 based PC, but I stick with EIDE-disks and Suse 9.0 32bit for the beginning, and leave the experiments to those who can afford it ;-) Thanks a lot to all who responded, this is a great forum! Andreas