Hi again, I'm sure that the backend is well designed and will do its job. But the prob is, that the Plustek backend already has a lot of hooks and possibilities to control LM983x based devices as well. The EPSON 1250 is already included also the HP2200C/2100C and reported as working - so why doing the job again? To be honest, I wrote this backend - or better, I ported the Plustek NT driver code to this backend and managed to make the other devices work with the help of quite a lot of other people who contributed in testing and tweaking parameters... The only thing this backend is missing is a better calibration routine and maybe a parser that is able to read ini files, like the National Semiconductor Windoze demo-driver does... You may also notice the sanei_lm983x functions that are already existent in SANE for communication with LM983x devices.
Anyway, I will have a look at your code hopefully this weekend... Gerhard On Freitag, 5. April 2002 15:40, Ludo Stellingwerff wrote: > Hi, > > Agreed, one backend should be enough for all lm9832-scanners. During the > development of this backend I did look at other backends. I worked > partly together with the people at sourceforge. The problem was that > their driver was swapped with unused code and ancient relics of other > scanners. Secondly the interface with the scanner is based on USB, not > SCSI as are most other scanners. > I plan at make the backend general enough to support the epson 1250 en > any other scanner with this chipset. I hope the driver will prove itself > to you guys as being stable and well designed. Please look at the source > and comment. If some other backend is more capable and better than mine, > use it instead:) > > Greetings, > Ludo > >
