> 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!
Unfortunatly that requires more activities as I have moved the scanner to
it's permanent spot which make it out of reach for my Alpha unless I start
it over the network. But considering the workload of last week and the
current tempature it may take a month to complete.
Hugo.
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