Please let us know if you get anywhere. I have the HP 4890, which is nearly identical.
Bill On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 15:06, stef <stef.dev at free.fr> wrote: > Le dimanche 1 novembre 2009 20:09:40 ????????? ??????, vous avez ?crit : >> Hello! >> >> I have got a HP Scanjet 4850 photo scanner. As far as I know, it is not >> supported by Sane yet, and I'm going to write a backend for it. >> >> Anyone can help me? I have some questions. >> 1. Did anybody try to write 4850 backend? Why it is not supported? >> 2. If no... How to start? >> >> Thanks, A. >> > > Hello, > > this scanner is reported to have a GL841 ASIC. If so it could be added > to the > genesys backend. Try sane-find-scanner to check the ASIC. If it is really > GL841 based, have a look at the genesys*.[ch] sources. You can start by adding > needed entries in genesys.conf.in and genesys_devices.c and then start to > tests. > > Regards, > Stef > > -- > 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
