Hi, I suppose this would be a perfect time to announce that I've just released a new patch for sane-backends-1.0.7. The patch is version 3 - the first two I'd rather not discuss ;). Our testing hasn't yet found any residual bugs with this version, but there must be some since I wrote it.
The driver uses libieee1284 by Tim Waugh, which can be obtained from: http://cyberelk.net/tim/libieee1284/index.html Getting ECP still requires a bit of luck (and a dash of fairy dust!), mostly due to the parport_pc module not using IRQs even if it's detected them. I just don't know enough about it to know exactly what's going on here - I'm sure Tim knows. Installing the parport_pc module and specifying the irq seems to work, ie: insmod parport_pc irq=7 And yes, this driver does support the N340P/N640P scanners - they're functionally identical to the FB330P/FB630P models. FB320P and FB620P are still unsupported since they appear to need different commands, and we don't have one to test (anyone want to send me one?). Enjoy. - Matthew Duggan http://canon-fb330p.sourceforge.net/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Czeh Tamas" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, 25 March 2002 12:59 AM Subject: [sane-devel] canon > Hi! > > i have cnon N640P paralell scanner. can i use it with sane (xsane)? > on the http://canon-fb330p.sourceforge.net/ page i read this: > "Currenly Supported: > * FB630P, FB330P, N640P and N340P scanners" > > on this page: http://www.buzzard.org.uk/jonathan/scanners.html > i read this: > "No backend currently exists. It is unknown whether the manufacture will > provide the documentation needed to write a driver." > > so, my question is: can i use somehow the canon scanner under linux > (width xsane) or not? :) > > > best regards > garfy > > _______________________________________________ > Sane-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.mostang.com/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > >
