Hello Ralph,
I don't know which chip the LiDE 30 uses, but the LiDE 220 definitely uses a GL124. I think that we are technologically rapidly approaching a point where it is no longer viable to reverse engineer an OEM product. IMO it is far more important to have a good and stable framework so the OEMs / chipset providers are encouraged to have a team writing Linux drivers for their scanner products. They may even see the benefit of defining a device class... So I would guess that a collection of devices is certainly useful for verification, but not necessarily so for development, and even so, the collection could quickly become obsolete. Perhaps a list could be made with user e-mail addresses and the hardware they own ? J. Op za 5 okt. 2019 om 09:54 schreef Ralph Little <[email protected]>: > Hi devs, > Yesterday I won a canon lide 30 for 50p on eBay. I thought it would be fun > to play with, but it occurred to me that I don't know if, as a project, if > we have many scanner examples for testing and verifying regressions. > > Its a bit difficult writing software for hardware that we do not possess. > It is also a bit scary making anything but trivial changes without hardware > to retest on. > > We have some open issues about the canoscan lide 220 but I don't know if > any member here actually possesses one of the scanners it being supposedly > a gl848. > > Some of these machines, particularly some of the older ones can be picked > up for peanuts with a keen eye and a regular look on eBay, Craigslist and > Gumtree. :D > > Has anyone considered putting together a more official collection of > representative hardware for device dev work? > > Cheers > Ralph >
