Re: Should Snapscan e20 work?

From: Pascal Terjan (pascal@ace.nl)
Date: Thu Jun 14 2001 - 01:33:56 PDT

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    Sebastien Sable wrote:
    >
    > Pascal Terjan <pascal@ace.nl> writes:
    >
    > > I recently bought a Snapscan e20 because I saw it support had been added
    > > in April.
    > > I'd like to know if it should work.
    >
    > Steffen Hübner <xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
    >
    > > Hi!
    > >
    > > I was able to get an e20 working per USB.
    > >
    > > My config:
    > > Kernel 2.4.2
    > > Kernel USB Scanner driver 0.4.5
    > > Sane 1.0.4
    > > Snapscan 20010319
    > >
    > > Two things are to make:
    > > First, add the IDs of the e20 to Kernel source
    > > linux/drivers/usb/scanner.h (or ~.c repectivly):
    > >
    > > ...
    > > { USB_DEVICE(0x06bd, 0x2091) }, /* SnapScan
    > > e20 */
    > > ...
    > >
    > > (I'll be in contact with the author to add these IDs
    > > in future releases.)
    > >
    > > Second, add your e20 to the (previously patched with
    > > snapscan-20010319) sane-backends/backend/snapscan.h:
    > >
    > > Add in
    > > typedef enum
    > > ...
    > > SNAPSCAN_E20,
    > > ...
    > >
    > > and in
    > >
    > > static struct SnapScan_Model_desc scanners[] =
    > > {
    > > ...
    > > {"SNAPSCAN e20", SNAPSCAN_E20},
    > > ...
    > >
    > > Thats all! Compile and smile!
    > >
    > > Maybe you have to add an /dev/usbscanner device node,
    > > if not already there.
    > > Install a correct snapscan.conf and the scanner is
    > > working.
    > >
    > > B/W scan is working just fine, but still minor
    > > problems remain in color scanning. The RGB colors are
    > > "shifted" for a few pixels for some reason...
    > > I don't know how to correct it for now.
    > >
    > > So far...
    >
    I got it to work yesterday. I had a few problems but it works quite
    fine.
    To solve my problem, I added a step to the initialisation : upload the
    firmware...
    (For information : Kernel 4.0.3)

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