Hello again, Just wanted to know if I'm supposed to wait for a reply here or how this mailing-list thing works (never participated in one before).
Regards, On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 5:41 AM, Fredrik Haikarainen < fredrik.haikarainen at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed that this scanner (as stated in the subjectline) is on your list > of untested scanners, and I want to be of any help I can to you as I have > this very scanner. > > I have no prior experience of either sane or working with scanners under a > GNU/Linux environment, but I do have very much experience in programming > (C++ mainly, also grasp C very well). > > I managed to scan some documents I needed to, although with some trouble. > Sometimes the "scanimage" program would just sit and wait with no output, > while the scanner did pretty much the same (didn't even make a single > noise), other times I'd get some I/O error, where half the time the scanner > would also display a totally unrelated error (that didn't even happen, like > "Close this lid" while it really was closed, and didn't matter at all to > the scanning process). One thing that always fixed this was replugging the > USB and running sane-find-scanner again. > > To proceed testing (and eventually patching the pixma backend), I would be > so delighted if you had any test-suite ready for these kinds of things, or > perhaps a checklist of sorts. Any documentation/tools that I could use to > ease this process would be highly appreciated, although I have no problem > to start with nothing at all as well, I'm simply wondering what exists for > this already. > > PS. I'm on ArchLinux and not Debian, if that matters a lot. I'll have you > know I've used debian for about 7 years before switching though, so I know > a lot about it. > > Looking forward to add another scanner to your bunch. > > Regards, > Fredrik Haikarainen > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/attachments/20140213/30d011ff/attachment.html>
