Hi, On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 10:34:38PM +0100, Simon Keimer wrote: > I've bought a Canon LIDE 35, which is not recognized by the sane-backends. > When I started to gather information about the scanner to post it here, I > became confused by the lsusb -v output: It displays a LIDE 50. Also, on the > canon website there is no LIDE 35 listed (at least on the german one).
>From the chipset point of view, it is a Canon LiDE 50 (or 40). They all use the same USB ids. > My questions: > - what will I have to do to make sane recognize my scanner? Just edit > libsane-canon.c and recompile or something like that? If so, whom is the > patch going to? You must write a backend (driver) to support it. In fact, there is a backend that intends to support such devices but it is not finished yet: http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/genesys-backend/ > - If not, do you need more information than the attached lsusb -v output? It's already on our website. Bye, Henning
