Hi, Henning's code is much more advanced. But he will be able to tell you by himself. =09 http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/genesys-backend/
bye, julien Le lundi 17 Mai 2004 15:28, Yves Maniette a =E9crit : > Gere K=E1roly, =E9crit : > > Hi! > > > > I've just read on http://www.sane-project.org that the scanner HP > > ScanJet 2300C is > > unsupported. Since I own one, I would like to submit the information > > I gathered > > (at the end of this mail). > > > > I think it would be great to have a working backend for this > > scanner, and since I can write programs in C, I'd like to write a > > driver (or participate in the creation of the driver), but I'd need > > some help - where and how to begin - because I don't know much about > > creating drivers . > > > > If someone can send me a few links or some documents concerning the > > creation of sane backends, I'd be more than happy. > > I have a hp2400, and the output of sane-find-scanner gives this: > > > > [...] > > found USB scanner (vendor=3D0x03f0 [Hewlett-Packard], product=3D0x0a01 [= hp > scanjet scanner], chip=3DGL646_HP) at libusb:001:003 # Your USB scanner w= as > (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by # SANE. Try > scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage. > > > Frank Zago told me privately that he does not have much time to > code, and myself do not know how to code at all. I might try to learn > but that would mean learning from scratch. > > Maybe Frank could send you some hints about how to code a new driver. > And maybe I could manage to get more information using the "usbsniff", > provided I find a windowsbox near here. > > > Yves