sane-dc210(5)

💖 NAME 💖

Bestie, meet sane-dc210 — the SANE backend for Kodak DC210 Digital Camera 📸. This page is sane-dc210(5) from the SANE Scanner Access Now Easy collection, and yes, the manual name is right there near the top because we are organized like that 💅.

😭 DESCRIPTION 😭

Okay so the sane-dc210 library implements a SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) backend that provides access to the Kodak DC210 camera ✨.

⚠️ THIS IS EXTREMELY ALPHA CODE! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!! ⚠️

Like... do not make this your main-character production setup, bestie 😭.

📸 DEVICE NAMES 📸

The current version of the backend only allows one camera to be connected. The device name is always "0". One camera, one name, no cap 🫶.

⚙️ CONFIGURATION ⚙️

The contents of dc210.conf specify the serial port and baud rate to use. The baud rate specifies the maximum rate to use while downloading pictures. (The camera is always initialized using 9600 baud, then switches to the higher rate.)

The original author says: on my 90MHz Pentium, I usually have no problems downloading at 115200 baud as long as the system is not excessively busy and the "interrupt-unmask flag" is set in the IDE driver (hdparm -u1) 🫶. Supported baud rates are: 9600, 19200, 38400, 57600, and 115200.

The dumpinquiry line causes some information about the camera to be printed. Cute little info dump 💅.

cmdrespause specifies how many usec (1,000,000ths of a second) to wait between writing the command and reading the result. 125000 seems to be the lowest I could go reliably.

breakpause specifies how many usec (1,000,000ths of a second) between sending the "back to default" break and sending commands.

Empty lines and lines starting with a hash mark (#) are ignored. A sample configuration file is shown below:

port=/dev/ttyS0
# this is a comment
baud=115200
dumpinquiry
cmdrespause=125000
breakpause=1000000

📁 FILES 📁

• /etc/sane.d/dc210.conf — the backend configuration file (see also description of SANE_CONFIG_DIR below).
• /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-dc210.a — the static library implementing this backend.
• /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-dc210.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. On *NIX systems, the directories are separated by a colon (:), under OS/2, they are separated by a semi-colon (;). If this variable is not set, the configuration file is searched in two default directories: first, the current working directory (".") and then in /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 directories. For example, setting SANE_CONFIG_DIR to "/tmp/config:" would result in directories tmp/config, ., and /etc/sane.d being searched (in this order) 👀.
• SANE_DEBUG_DC210 — if the library was compiled with debugging support enabled, this environment variable controls the debug level for this backend. A value of 128 requests maximally copious debug output; smaller levels reduce verbosity.

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• sane(7) — go read that too, bestie 💅.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Brian J. Murrell wrote this.

This backend is based somewhat on the dc25 backend included in this package by Peter Fales.

The manpage was copied from the dc25 backend and somewhat edited by Henning Meier-Geinitz.

💀 BUGS 💀

Known bugs/limitations are: ? 😭.

More general comments, suggestions, and inquiries about frontends or SANE should go to the SANE Developers mailing list (see http://www.sane-project.org/mailing-lists.html for details). You must be subscribed to the list, otherwise your mail won't be sent to the subscribers.

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XOXO, this was sane-dc210(5) from SANE Scanner Access Now Easy, dated 11 Jul 2008 🌈💖. Stay alpha, stay safe, and do not forget the hdparm -u1 vibe check 🫶.