Re: driver dev advice

Whirley (wearly@bigfoot.com)
Wed, 24 Mar 1999 17:16:37 -0800

Scanpaq does not make their own scanners. They are OEM'd by Microtek. They
are essentially the same save for some minor differences in the cases. Once
the parport project figures out the OnSpec chip you will have a good place
to start.

-----Original Message-----
From: Washu chan <washu@gothpunk.com>
To: sane-devel@mostang.com <sane-devel@mostang.com>
Date: Wednesday, March 24, 1999 1:49 PM
Subject: driver dev advice

>
>Hi,
>
>I have never written a device driver before and am thinking my unsupported
>scanner might be a good place to start. The problem is the company that
>made my scanner is probably out of business.
>
>The company is Scanpaq, Inc.
>It is a scanport parallel port TWAIN scanner. Will I be able to work
>without specific hardware information about the scanner? Is TWAIN a
>general purpose API?
>
>If you think it is possible what is a good roadmap of resources to get
>started. For instance I have the O'Rreilly Linux Device Driver book. Are
>there good resources about writing drives for the parallel port and
>scanners? Then I'll need to integrate with SANE, correct?
>
>Thanks,
>washu
>
>
>
>
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