Re: newbie

From: Alan Baltazar (abaltaza@mail.to.co.pima.az.us)
Date: Thu May 18 2000 - 10:03:30 PDT

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    hello robert,

      thanks for your info! It will help alot. Danke!

                                               alan,
                                             from Tucson,AZ,USA

    Robert Schwebel wrote:
    >
    > Hi Baltazar!
    >
    > On Tue, 16 May 2000, Alan Baltazar wrote:
    > > I'm new at developing scanner drivers for linux. Could anyone tell me
    > > how to get started on developing one? In other words, do I need to get
    > > any specs from the company that made the scanner? Or is it just using
    > > one of the other scanner drivers as a template and tweaking it until the
    > > scanner works right?
    >
    > You should print out the SANE standard document and read it carefully to
    > know how things are meant to work. Then I think the best solution is to
    > look at a well designed driver (e.g. the umax one) and see how it's
    > implemented.
    >
    > Robert
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