Hi, On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 10:58:08PM +0100, JKD wrote: > At least HP Scanjet 3970c works with my backend. There are two more > scanners wich use a Realtek RTS8822 chipset: > > - HP Scanjet 4070 Photosmart > - HP Scanjet 4370 > > The first one seems to be equal to hp3970c. The second one uses a > diferent RTS8822 chipset model. But I don't have those scanners so I > didn't test them. That's why I added such scanners in hp3900.conf, to give > people choice to test them before inclusion into sane-backends.
Ok, I listed the 3970 as minimal and the others as untested: http://www.sane-project.org/lists/sane-backends-external.html#S-HP3900 > > To my mind the readme is a bit misleading. Setting BACKENDS is > > absolutely necessary, because you don't provide a patch for > > configure(.in) to add the backend to the lists of backends. > > Well, I followed backend-writing.txt, section "CHECKLIST: SUBMITTING A > NEW BACKEND" for editing necessary files and it does not mention > anything to edit in configure(.in). Editing such files may sound obvious > but it could be a good idea to add that explanation into that section, > under line "In sane-backends/" for those developers who come from > windows systems and aren't familiarized with SANE project. Thanks for the hint. I added some notes about this. Bye, Henning
