sounds good. the first time you get image data is really a rush! allan
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Andreas Robinson <andr345 at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've been busy working on a driver for the Canoscan 4400F for a good > while and thought it best to come out with an update in case someone > wonders whether I dropped off the planet. > > Yesterday, I received some unexpected help from Wim Brul, (Thanks > again!) and was finally able to get the damned contraption to send > images properly! > > The attached image should give you an idea how far along it is. (Or isn't.) > > Basically, I have a good grasp of how the scanner works, but there's > still a lot of work to be done on the actual driver. > > The curious can visit http://github.com/andr345/gl843driver where I'm > dumping my code at irregular intervals. > (The interesting files are gl843_*.c) > > It is a standalone test driver, where I've experimented with accessing > the scanner registers by name, instead of by I/O address and bit > number. It's *very* convenient, but so different from the current > Genesys driver that I'm doubting whether it can ever be merged with > it. > > Anyhow, back to work! If you have questions or opinions, I'll be happy > to answer them. > > Cheers, > Andreas > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > ? ? ? ? ? ? to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org > -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
