What is the current status on the Canon LiDE 500F support? The most recent messages I can find are from about a year ago, and indicate that it is a work in progress. (The 500F has a GL841 chip, which should be supported by the genesys backend.)
As an LiDE 500F owner (bought when I was using Windows) I would like it to be supported in the near future. I tried using the scanner in a virtual machine running Windows XP, under VMware Server and under VirtualBox. Both did not work. I tried adding the 500F as a clone of the LiDE 60 in genesys_devices.c (with the correct device ID), but after compiling and installing the adapted version, the scanner was still not found. It is detected by sane-find-scanner (found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x221f [CanoScan], chip=GL841) at libusb:001:012), but not by scanimage. I am not a device driver programmer, but I am willing to provide someone with information that could help supporting the LiDE 500F by SANE. Or else I would have to buy a new scanner ;-( George
