[sane-devel] Patch/Fujitsu: add fi-5110eoxm USB ID

[m. allan noah]

thanks Adam, it's been included in the development version for nearly
a year. Its been a long time since we've had a release :) If you track
down the bug, let us know, i am curious.

allan

On 2/4/08, Adam J. Richter <adam at yggdrasil.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>         In case this change is not already in the upcoming release of
> the Fujitsu sane back end, here is a patch adding the USB device ID
> for the Fujitsu fi-5110eoxm, a color duplex scanner with automatic
> document feed which is sometimes sold at low prices from surplus
> outlets because it is "Macintosh only", although it works fine on my
> PC.  My understanding is the same as the fi-5110eox (or is
> fi-5110eox2?) with only the follow differences:
>
>         1. Different USB device ID.
>
>         2. Sold in a box containing Macintosh drivers without Microsoft
>            Windows drivers.
>
>         3. Painted white.
>
>         I have one of these scanners, which I have been using
> regularly for several months, mostly scanning in color at 300dpi,
> duplex and simplex in a variety of page sizes.
>
>         I believe that the only problem that I have had with the
> scanner that probably has a software component appears to be a linux
> kernel issue rather than user level code, but I'll mention it here
> just for full disclosure.  Occasionally, "scanimage" will not exit
> after appearing to have scanned a page, and its process will not exit
> even when killed with "kill -9" (so, I believe this must involve a
> kernel bug).
>
>         Anyhow, I have included the patch as a MIME attachment.  I
> hope it can be integrated.
>
> Adam Richter
>
>


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