Re: VuegoScan Brisa 610P

Frank Becker (fbecker@nortelnetworks.com)
Sun, 24 Jan 1999 13:17:40 -0800

Kevin R. Charter wrote:
>
> Steve Hammond wrote:
>
> > If I realy understand there is no way to build a parallel port scanner
> > driver under Linux?
>
> It's not that it's technically impossible, just that most manufacturers
> have been reluctant to give out programming information for their
> parallel port scanners. If documentation isn't available, it's pretty
> hard to write a reliable backend. I understand some people have tried
> snooping on the parallel port using bundled scanning software under
> WINE, but I'm not sure how much success they've had reverse-engineering
> the communication between scanner and host. If you look back through
> the list archive, you'll be able to find some discussion of this
> and related issues.
>
Hi,

I just subscribed to this mailing list, so this might have been
mentioned before...

There is a x86 simulator out there called bochs. With some minor
modification to the code such that the ports your scanner is
interested in aren't simulated, you might be able to get it to work
or at least snoop the ports. I had some success with my logitech
scanman color, but only to the point where it tried to do DMA.
In the end it was easier to get it working with Andreas Beck's
logitech driver (although not reliably at higher dpis)...

Frank.

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