2007/12/18, James Crow <james at ultratans.com>: > > You might want to check the list archives for Canon PIXMA driver > support. I have the MP160 and it is supported. There is driver that > works in CVS. It may also include support for your printer. > Start here: http://home.arcor.de/wittawat/pixma/ > > Thanks, > James
There's exactly where I looked. Here's a quote from that site: " Unknown protocol: These devices don't work with this backend and there is no easy way to add supports because they use a different command set which has to be analyzed first. Co-programmers are welcome! :-) I personally cannot do this because I don't have the devices. MP110 4A9:1700 1200 N N - N unsupported MP130 4A9:1701 1200 N N - N unsupported" I saw that someone wrote here about the MP110. Maybe the MP130 can use the same driver? Anyway, the site I referred to when I first wrote, suggested that someone could write a backend to this and other unsupported drivers and it also said that it is not a very hard thing to do for people who know a little C, for example. Well, since I have studied C a long time ago, I thought that maybe this isn't very impossible after all, but I guess I will need some help to get me started. I don't know where to begin, kind of. I don't even know exactly how a driver in general works... I need some basic knowledge to get started, and I just thought that someone here could give me some kind of clue where to start or some links that explain things... What do I need (except a C compiler and the scanner)? Can the fact that I also have Windows XP with a working driver be of any help? Is there some kind of software for Windows that can give me any clues about how the MP130 works? Yes, I can do some C programming, but I need to know what I need to do... otherwise it's kind of being told to create a schoilkus program in C without also being told what a schoilkus program is (in this case nothing since I just made it up...). Johnny Rosenberg On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 19:30 +0100, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: > > 2007/12/10, Epostlistor <gurus.knugum at gmail.com>: > > I visited http://www.sane-project.org/contrib.html and readed > > about > > contributing to the project - Writing a Backend (Driver). > > > > The page said that "You don't need to be an experienced > > programmer. > > Backends are usually written in C, so some basic knowledge of > > this > > language helps. You need a lot of patience, however, > > especially if you > > can't get programmer's documentation from your scanner's > > manufacturer." > > > > I learned C many years ago and I still think I remember most > > of it, but I > > am not programming very much these days. I am writing here > > because I think > > I need all the help I can get. Maybe someone is already doing > > this, then I > > might be able to contribute in some way. If not, it feels like > > there are a > > lot of things I need to know. Maybe there are similar backend > > drivers out > > there that I can get inspiration from and learn how to write > > things like > > that. > > > > I have the Canon PIXMA MP130 and my operating system is > > GNU/Linux Ubuntu > > Studio 7.10. I also have a small partition with Windows XP, so > > I can use > > the scanner that way, but of course I want to use it with > > Ubuntu. At the > > moment I can only use the printing function with Ubuntu, but I > > needed to > > install additional software before that was possible. > > > > Is there some kind of software for Windows that can "scan" > > what's sent and > > received to/from the MP130 while scanning etc? I guess that > > would help > > somewhat. > > > > My idea is to write a very basic driver just to make it > > possible to scan > > with no fancy features (which are pretty useless anyway in > > most cases). > > Some things, like basic image editing, is better done with > > dedicated > > software, such as GIMP, I guess. > > > > So, any comments to this? Will this task be too tough for > > someone like > > me..? > > > > Johnny Rosenberg > > > > > > Okay, seems like nobody's interested in this, so I guess I'll just > > skip the idea and buy another skanner instead. Besides, I guess that I > > would have failed doing this anyway. > > > > Johnny Rosenberg > > -- > > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > > to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/attachments/20071218/54eb610b/attachment.htm
