Hi there, On Mittwoch, 29. Januar 2003 22:49, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > Hi, > > not being the plustek maintainer but responding anyway: > > On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 12:53:08PM +0100, David Faure wrote: > > * why isn't plustek-sane part of sane? Wouldn't this make things much > > easier for all owners of a canon (and other) scanner? > > Wrong question :-) The Plustek backend is included in SANE. You may > need the updates from the plustek backend page if you have an older > version of the source code, however. With sane-backends-1.0.10-pre3 > you should be uptodate.
See my mail! > > > (I think it's also time to close down the ucanoscan project on > > sourceforge, if anyone of that project is listening - it's very confu= sing > > to first find this stuff, which is in very alpha state, to only later > > find out that the plustek driver handles Canon scanners just fine... = But > > well if becomes part of sane out of the box, then people won't have t= o > > worry about that.) > > There are 5 or 6 projects for NS LM983x based scanners. I've removed > all of them from the SANE projects file and only added the > canonscanner project to the lists because it provides support for the > 1210 (at least for FreeBSD) which doesn't seem to be supported by any > backend. > Some of the remaining LM983x projects have stopped their work and=20 put a link the Plustek page. Some have not (the sourceforge project for the LiDE30), as this guy plays around with the code on his own for to imp= rove the image settings, we're in contact and try to use each others results..= =2E Then 1210 might also be supported as well by the Plustek backend, but I don't have any test device and no requests about that... Maybe I should rename the backend to merlin or LM983x, at least for these devices... Cheers Gerhard
