Henning Meier-Geinitz <henn...@meier-geinitz.de> writes: > Hi, > > On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 09:53:26AM -0500, Shelby Neuhouser wrote: >> I have an Epson 4490 scanner. What can I do to help in the development of >> the driver for it. I am willing to open the unit to get chip set info if it >> is needed. I am running Suse 9.3 64 bit. > > The comment in our lists says: "Unsupported. Support is planned for > the epkowa backend. USB vendor/product ID info: 0x04b8/0x0119". > > Maybe Olaf Meeuwissen can comment on this?
Yes, I can. This scanner will be supported with iscan-1.18.0, but it requires a binary-only DFSG-non-free module that will only be released for IA32 machines. Seeing that Shelby is using a 64bit machine that's of no use unless one doesn't mind running in 32bit emulation mode (requires a 32bit sane-backends!). FWIW, this scanner uses a protocol that is, eh, not unlike that used by the 3170 and the 4180. > If this were not valid anymore, you could look at the "contributing" > section of the SANE homepage, send a report about this scanner and > start programming a backend. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen EPSON AVASYS Corporation, LAN FSF Associate Member #1962 sign up at http://member.fsf.org/ GnuPG key: 6BE37D90/AB6B 0D1F 99E7 1BF5 EB97 976A 16C7 F27D 6BE3 7D90 Penguin's lib! -- I hack, therefore I am -- LPIC-2
