Hi Pierre, >> Since the CanoScan LiDE 500F is still unsupported and I consider >> to buy such a thing, I would like to now, how much work is still >> missing on this. > > Basic reflective scanning may work with only adding the usb-id and > a new > device definition to the backend.
That sounds good to me. > But getting infrared scan and transparency adapter to work will > require > capturing and analysis of usb logs of a scan with the windows driver. That's of lower priority to me. My primary concern is the basic reflective scanning. > I think these are the steps needed for full support: > - acquire logs from windows scans Would that be possible from Mac OS X, too? I only have an old Win98 and I am not sure that the scanner will work there. > We do have some scripts for analysing usb logs. I can help finding the > differences between the register sets and motor tables of LiDE 500F > and > mine LiDE35. Great. Thanks for the offer. I guess I will go ahead and buy it. I have to keep an eye on my christmas-budget, so this may take a week or two, but I will get back to this list once I got it. Michael
