Hi Alex,
Just a quick note to say that no guarantee can be given as to when a new driver/backend will be available! I shouldn't be wrong in saying that everybody working on those various projects are doing this in their spare time... Thomas --- Alex <shfl...@sh.km.ua> a écrit : > Respected Henning! > > Inform me, please, that I should to you inform on > the scanner Spot > ScanTak 2c. I hope, that my information will for > many be useful, and > also, that a series of these scanners will be not > long in the list not > supported SANE. > I wait for your answer. > > Regards Alex (Oleksiy O. Loktev). > > 14.05.03 12:06:44, Henning Meier-Geinitz > <henn...@meier-geinitz.de> > wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 08:12:12AM +0300, Alex > wrote: > >> Answer, please a question. Why the developers of > a package SANE have > >> not included support of scanners ScanTak 2c/3c of > firm Spot > Technology. > > > >That's easy: I didn't know that there is a backend > for that scanner > >already. If there is one and it conforms to our > guidelines, we'll be > >happy to include it. > > > >> In spite of the fact that firm-manufacturer > already is not present, > >> rather plenty of similar scanners all still is on > a service at the > >> users. And as shows search on appropriate forums, > many from the > users > >> have problems for want of to attempt to force > these scanners to work > in > >> OS Linux. By one from such users am also I. > > > >So there are plenty of people who support you in > writing the backend. > >You'll get help concerning SANE standard issues or > other questions on > >this list but basically it's up to you or any other > owner of such a > >scanner to write the backend. See also: > >http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/misc/unsupported.html > > > >> These scanners have the own SCSI-adapter (16 bit > ISA), but visually > to > >> determine a type chipset it is not obviously > possible. Programm the > >> utilities (for example, pnpdump from Linux Red > Hat 7.3 or ISA > >> Configuration Utility from MS DOS6.22) - are > powerless. They refuse > >> even to find the appropriate adapter, though in > User's Manual to the > >> scanner is written: > > > >To make sure that it's really a SCSI card you could > connect the > >scanner to a "real" SCSI adapter an check if it's > detected. > > > >> Further I in a research of this problem was not > advanced and I hope > to > >> receive the help from you, respected developers > SANE. > > > >Until there is a backend, I'll add these scanners > to our lists as > >"unsupported". > > > >Bye, > > Henning > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sane-devel mailing list > sane-de...@www.mostang.com > http://www.mostang.com/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel ___________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en français ! Yahoo! Mail : http://fr.mail.yahoo.com
