Jason Zaphyr wrote: > Can someone please help to get the Primax USB Colorado 19200 Scanner > driver into the sane project... > > This is the only crutch keeping me from staying inside Mandrake Linux > all the time. I hate running back to XP to scan something everytime. > > > Please someone help I'm begging I have been waiting a long time > patiently watching the beta drivers development page and it seems he has > all but stopped work.. And the patches will not work with my updated > kernel level... so I'm stuck..
Hi Jason, Last time I read from Steven Ellis, the backend author, he was very busy with something else. As for the backend, there is a several problems: 1/ the scanner interface code is written in (some sort of) c++ 2/ the current patch is for SANE 1.0.5 3/ the scanner interface code is not GPL Case 1 can be solved, as well as case 2. I can do it if someone is willing to test the backend (you?). However case 3/ unfortunatly prevents this backend to ever be integrated into SANE. Unless Primax put their code under a license compatible with GPL. I think that at least a couple people tried contacting them but got no answer. What is the problem you have with your kernel? Which version? Regards, Frank.
