[sane-devel] Contributing to CanoScan LiDE 500F development.

[Dag Rune Sneeggen]

Excellent!
Thanks a bunch for all the useful information and your awk scripts.
I'll see if I can get around to fiddling a bit with it this week...
Hopefully hehe ;)

Cheers,
Dag Rune Sneeggen

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Stéphane VOLTZ wrote:
> Le Mardi 26 Juillet 2005 02:39, Dag Rune Sneeggen a écrit :
> 
>>I've read over at
>>http://www.sane-project.org/unsupported/canon-canoscan-lide-500f.html and
>>http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/genesys-backend/ that there is some work
>>being done to get support for this scanner. At the moment I have to haul up
>>vmware with windows virtually to scan stuff.
>>
>>As such, I'm wondering how fast this development is going, and if there's
>>any way I could help? Anything in particular that could be helpful?
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Dag Rune Sneeggen
>>
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> 
> 
> 	Hello,
> 
> 	here are the scripts I use to analyze gl646 logs taken with usbsniff 1.8. It 
> takes a raw log and turn it into a file with higher level functions decoded, 
> which is much easier to understand. The decode() function used by 
> scripts/genesys_bulk_write_register.awk
> scripts/genesys_bulk_write_register2.awk
> scripts/genesys_read_register.awk
> needs to be changed to decode gl841 registers. But the rest is OK. There are 
> still a few raw URB in the results, but they are understable (bulk reads of 
> data).
> 
> 	Once the scripts are tuned the process of adding support for GL841 is:
> 	- use usbsniff to log scans with clearly identified parameters (dpi,
> 	  geometry, ...)
> 	- decode the log with the scripts
> 	- isolate portion of it and match them with high level action such as head
> 	  parking, shading calibration etc ...
> 	- change the corresponding functions in genesys_gl841.c to match the
> 	  decoded log.
> 	- run scanimage to test with full debug log
> 	- compare the scanimage log with the decoded log and fixe the differences
> 	  you get.
> 	- once a high level function is done, get to the next one.
> 
> 	I estimate it should take about 20 to 40 hours of work to finish the gl841 
> backend.
> 
> 	Patches and questions are welcomed.
> 
> Regards,
> 	Stef
> 
>