On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 07:55:01PM +0200, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 05:26:38PM +0000, William Gallafent wrote: > > I've been becoming quite confused while I try to work out what the > > most appropriate backend is for this scanner, if any. > > I don't think there is a backend yet. All I now about it is summarized > at my website: > > http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/scanners.html#GT68XX > > > >From /proc/bus/usb/devices: > > > > P: Vendor=05d8 ProdID=4002 Rev= 1.00 > > > > I think that this is therefore a gt6801-based scanner, for which there > > isn't a SANE backend at all ... but I might be wrong. > > True. Some people got some code running, but not a fully functional > backend. > > There is also code from Mustek, but that's a stand-alone program. I > haven't tested that one yet. >
I have tested it and it works quite well. They have released source for the stand-alone program except for a gt68x-library that talks to the scanner. I would think that Mustek doesn't own that library. They also include some gtk-based software that gives you a GUI, and a panel application that I haven't tried yet. One problem with the binary-only library though is that it relies on a kernel patch which uses the same ioctl numbers (69 and 70) in the scanner kernel module that is already used for some other scanner. astor
