An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/attachments/20060807/b5dfdc0f/attachment.html From [email protected] Mon Aug 7 21:36:01 2006 From: [email protected] (Jeff Shrowder) Date: Mon Aug 7 21:28:46 2006 Subject: [sane-devel] Canon LiDE 500F ? Message-ID: <[email protected]>
This is a second attempt to post to this list. Gerald Murray wrote: > Quoting Martin Seekatz <[email protected]>: > > >> is anyone working on a backend for the Canon LiDE 500F ? > > > > I do not think anyone is actively pursuing this. Much of the > base for the backend is already in sane in the genesys gl841 > files. There are no usbsnoop logs as of yet, and the frontend > (that acquires the image) is not known, so it is not known > whether this is a little change to the current backend, or a > larger patch. > best regards, > Gerald > I began to very tentatively look at this before Easter and got into some bother with the usbsnoop which seemed to leave a bad taste in win98's mouth - win98 wouldn't recognise one physical usb port and kept looking install a none existent usb device and ..... Then I got busy with Easter preparations and on top of Easter had to get organised for three weeks overseas. So, I haven't been back to it yet and I haven't forgotten about the project. It's just a matter of trying to sort out what happened with the usbs and win98 on the aforementioned box and then try to get some logs. In the meantime I'm using my 500F via my dual-boot notebook networked to my main (Red Hat 9) box. Jeff -- Rev. Jeff Shrowder, Bendigo South Cluster, Uniting Church in Australia http://thebillabong.info
