Everyone, About a month ago I indicated that I had begun work on an UMAX Astra 1220U driver for SANE, based on the original command line tool by Paul Mackerras.
Today I completed my first successful scan with that driver and am happy to report that it works great. The driver is not currently available for download, but I have initiated the process of acquiring a SourceForge page for it. If you have this scanner (and in particular, if you have been using the original command line tool), please let me know by private e-mail so I can have an estimate of how much interest there is in this driver. Also let me know if you are a programmer and would be interested in helping out, especially if you know anything about how to program the Linux USB interface. The current driver (as the original driver) requires a special "ioctl" message to be added to "scanner.cpp" in the kernel. I would love to remove this requirement, but I have no idea how to pull it off. I imagine it would involve writing some USB interface code in the backend to duplicate what "scanner.cpp" does, but that's way above my head. Thank you, Marcio Luis Teixeira
