Re: newbie

From: Alan Baltazar (abaltaza@mail.to.co.pima.az.us)
Date: Thu May 18 2000 - 13:22:13 PDT

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    Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote:
    >
    thanks again.

    - Alan

    > Hi,
    >
    > > 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?
    >
    > Yes, this would be the best and easiest way. You may try to listen to the
    > Windows driver (e.g. with WINE) or disassemble the Windows driver but this
    > will be very hard and I think it's not worth the work.
    >
    > > Or is it just using
    > > one of the other scanner drivers as a template and tweaking it until the
    > > scanner works right?
    >
    > If your scanner is very similar to one for that a backend exists, this may
    > work.
    >
    > Bye,
    > Henning
    >
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