Gunther, I have recently joined the canonscanner-devel list, and I publicized there your test backend program for the Canon N670U. Here is a report from someone about it, on another Canon scanner.
Theodore Kilgore ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 00:26:51 -0800 (PST) From: R N dev <[email protected]> To: Theodore Kilgore <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Canonscanner-devel] Canoscan N670U Hi, Great work! It seems to work also with the canon N656U that has the same id as the N650U (i.e. 0x2206), but the white color is represented as light blue. In the note you told about replug the scanner, but i'd not. It's been necessary to press the scanner start button. Thanks for all Angelo --- Theodore Kilgore <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Suspecting that this message may be of general > interest to people > interested in Canon scanners, I am forwarding it to > the mailing list. I > might mention that Gunther Mayer's page also > contained a version 0.02 > as well as 0.01, the last time I looked at it, > several days ago. > > Further background: > > The N670U uses the National Semiconductor LM9833 > chipset, with CIS > sensors. Several other scanners use either an > LM9832, 31, or 30 chip and > may use CIS or CCD. Several of these scanners are > made by Plustek, which > is more willing to cooperate with Linux people than > Canon seems to be. > Hence, there is some interest in the National > Semiconductor Merlin > chipsets among Plustek developers, and some work has > been done there > about LM983x support in general. > > The referenced program is very alpha, and the > compilation instructions > need to be taken literally. It uses libusb, not > kernel support, and > depends upon usbdevfs to function, too. Therefore > before being successful > with it even after compilation one must do rmmod > scanner (if scanner.o > is installed) and one must do mount -t usbdevfs none > /proc/bus/usb if this > is not already done. Otherwise no scan. > > 150DPI only. Presumably one of the things on the > list is to get beyond > this. > > > Theodore Kilgore > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 18:25:02 +0100 > From: Gunther Mayer <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [sane-devel] Canon > N670U:merlin670-V0.02 developers release > > [email protected] wrote: > > > > This works. I got a scan out of it. > > > > Further remarks: > > > > 1. apparently I had to rmmod scanner first, or it > was unhappy. > > That was expected. I added a verbose message about > this. > > > 2. I had to run the program as root > > 3. It didn't want somehow to create the temporary > file n670u.raw, but > > after I did > > Fixed in > http://home.t-online.de/home/gunther.mayer/merlin670-V0.01.c > > - > Gunther > _______________________________________________ > Sane-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.mostang.com/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > > > _______________________________________________ > Canonscanner-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/canonscanner-devel __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com
