I contacted the vendor, I've asked if they have any API specs. Is that the best first step?
On 2020-01-02 01:40, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > Hi Ralph, > > Ralph Little writes: > > Hi, > > On 2020-01-01 5:14 p.m., [email protected] wrote: > > It's not listed as supported, but thought I might get lucky. My > thinking was that if it's supported by Mac, it should work with linux. > Tried specifying all sorts of values in /etc/sane.d/avision.conf but > nothing seemed to work. > > Is there a way to add support to the existing avision backend? > > I'm interested to know why you think it is an Avision scanner? Uh, > device descriptor of 0x0638/0x0707 at 004:003 (PenPower A8 Scanner ) That 0x0638 is Avision's vendor ID ... Hope that helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join
