[sane-devel] What docs do I need to add support for a scanner (Plustek might help me...) ?

[Farid Joubbi]

On 10/23/06, Gerhard Jaeger <gerhard at gjaeger.de> wrote:
>
> On Sunday 22 October 2006 22:21, Blazej Kaczorowski z interia.pl wrote:
> > Hi all i am new :) I'a watching your list for quite a while - it looks
> > like Sane is very lifely :)
> > > The thing is that I have been in contact with some prople working for
> > > Plustek support. I got this e-mail from one person working there:
> > > "Thanks for your email.
> > > What kind of technical data do you need?  We can only provide the data
> > > for implementing the Linux driver."
> > >
> > > Also I got the information that the ScanCopy 115 is (most probably)
> > > the same scanner as the OpticPro ST28.
> > > I think that my ScanCopy is a rebadged OpticPro ST28, made to fit the
> > > Konica Minolta Magicolor 2300W Printer.
> > >
> > Hi i Have S28 Plustek (USB scanner (vendor=0x07b3, product=0x0801,
> > chip=GL841?) at libusb:003:002)) scanner and i am interested ... can u
> > post email to witch u post this question? I'm also not good in driver
> > writting but i am fast lerner i will try to look at that carefully
> >
> > > As I am not very familiar with SANE, I have no idea of what to reply
> > > to this person working for Plustek, but I don't want to loose this
> > > opportunity.
> > >
> > > How helpful has Plustek been in the past? Is this something unusual
> > > that they are willing to provide documents to SANE?
> > >
> > > Are there anyone interested in helping me with a driver for these two
> > > scanners?
>
> Hi,
>
> there's no need to start a new driver, the genesys driver is THE
> driver, which needs to be extended, or at least filled with the
> correct register settings for the S28/ST28.
>
> -
> Gerhard
>
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Hello again,

I haven't asked Plustek for any documentataion yet. I have had a very busy
week and I am still not sure of what I should ask for.
If I ask for the register settings, will that do? Is that all that is
missing from the genesys backend in order for it to support these scanners?

/Farid
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