Me I suppot the development as a beta user too. I have this scaner also.
Thanks in advance, Reinaldo de Medeiros Em Dom, 2007-09-16 ?s 16:24 +0200, George Willegers escreveu: > 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 > > -- [ ]s Reinaldo Confira o meu blog de vinhos: http://vinhoacessivel.blogspot.com
