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Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man4/man4.i386/gsc.4')
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diff --git a/share/man/man4/man4.i386/gsc.4 b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/gsc.4 index c73188a..6b6b5d7 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/man4.i386/gsc.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/gsc.4 @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ I had neither enough documentation nor experience in writing interrupt driven device drivers. .Pp -The device can operate at four different +The device can operate at four different .Em resolutions : 100, 200, 300 and 400dpi. @@ -86,24 +86,24 @@ Thus the scans can easily processed by any graphic package around .Xr xpaint 1 , .Xr xv 1 , .Xr xli 1 -only to name some of them ...). In +only to name some of them ...). In .Em raw mode a bit which is set means a black pixel because the scanner detects black points on white paper. On the other hand, because pnm format describes -intensities of electron beams in video screens a set bit in +intensities of electron beams in video screens a set bit in .Em pbm mode means a white pixel. .Pp -The +The .Em width of the output bitmap is fixed as given by the resolution value. -However, the +However, the .Em height of the bitmap must be -supplied in +supplied in .Em pnm mode since the driver must know at what time the .Sq end-of-file @@ -113,11 +113,11 @@ directly copy the scanner output into a pbm file with .Xr cat . Of course you can obtain a similar effect by using .Xr dd 1 -with the driver in +with the driver in .Em raw mode. .Pp -The +The .Em graymap output mode is not yet implemented into the driver. It is even questionable if external programs would not do this job @@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ open though untouched state otherwise the request will fail and is set to .Er EBUSY . .It GSC_SWIDTH int -Set the +Set the .Em width of the bitmap. Actually, this is an alternative @@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ width .El .Pp Values which are not reported in the above table will cause the ioctl -call to fail with +call to fail with .Xr errno 2 set to .Er EINVAL . @@ -194,9 +194,9 @@ the right part that is exceeding the standard line. .It GSC_GWIDTH int Get current width of the bitmap in pixels. .It GSC_SHEIGHT int -Set the +Set the .Em height -of the bitmap in +of the bitmap in .Em pnm mode. This is actually @@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ This upper limit is checked before it overwrites the current value and pases an .Er ENOMEM in the -.Xr errno 2 +.Xr errno 2 variable. However, since the bitmap width can change after a buffer length was selected a read request may fail with @@ -269,37 +269,37 @@ starts scanning. It can then be set to a short amount to react Note that the user should be left time to at least fill one buffer without having to haste. .Pp -Note that the +Note that the .Em pbm -versus +versus .Em raw mode selection is done by the minor number not by ioctl requests. -In +In .Em raw mode the selected height of the bitmap will have no effect. .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width /dev/gsc0pd .It Pa /dev/gsc0 -device node for +device node for .Em raw output, has minor number 0. .It Pa /dev/gsc0d -device node for +device node for .Em raw -output emitting +output emitting .Em debug messages if the GSCDEBUG option was given at compile time, has minor number 32. .It Pa /dev/gsc0p -device node for output in +device node for output in .Em pbm file format, has minor number 8. .It Pa /dev/gsc0pd -device node for +device node for .Em pbm -and +and .Em debug mode, has minor number 40. .El |