Hi Henning, hi list,
I'd like to support you in writing such a backend. I have obtained source code
from Plustek and a test device (Optic Pro UT12).
I first planned to integrate the USB support into the current Plustek-backend
(for parallel port scanners), but as there are quite a lot of other LM983x based
scanners, I think it will be much better to have one "generic" backend for these
devices.
As soon as I have some time, I will check the stuff that you already have.
Gerhard
On Son, 08 Apr 2001, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just wanted to ask everyone who worked on drivers or other programs
> for LM983x based scanners what's the status of this work. I had quite
> a lot of questions about these scanners and some people offered help.
> If I remeber correctly, there is even a CVS repository for some code.
>
> Should we set up a page summarizing the available docs and the code
> that was written until now? I could do that. Maybe a mailing list
> would be nice? If there are some people willing to write code, maybe a
> sourceforge account would be appropriate (including mailing list and
> CVS)?
>
> The idea was to write one backend for all the 983x (x=1 + 2) based
> scanners and just add the different settings of each scanner (e.g. RAM
> size, detector type, buttons) to some sort of ini file or some
> constants in the code. My suggestion is to add a file
> sanei/sanei_lm983x.c (or similar) to include the low level read and
> write functions for the chip.
>
> I will probably have some time in the next weeks (or weekends) to
> write some code and do testing. In the last months I haven't done
> much, my test program can be found on http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/download.html
> however. I myself own a Mustek BearPaw 1200 and 2400.
>
> There is a lot of documentation about the chip set and we have even
> source code for Windows drivers so it should be possible to write a
> SANE backend, it's just a lot of work.
>
> Comments?
>
> Bye,
> Henning
>
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