On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Scot <sane at mailcan.com> wrote: >> by m. allan noah-3 Jan 18, 2010; 08:52pm >> >> On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 2:57 PM, scar <scar at ...> wrote: >>> >>> since i require an inexpensive A3 scanner, i plan on purchasing one of >>> these soon, i have not found any other options. ?Mustek appears to have >>> a linux driver on their Taiwanese website, although i read reports here >>> of it not working. ?if all else fails i will attempt to install Windows >>> XP in a virtual machine and use the scanner through there, which was >>> also a possible solution i read on this list. >>> >>> naturally i would want to help develop a working sane driver. ?i do not >>> program but i have a degree in computer engineering so my background >>> should be adequate enough to provide some help, given there is someone >>> to provide me with suitable advice on how precisely to help. >> >> Sure- If you get one of these, we would need you to get a trace of the >> windows driver making a small black and white scan, using this tool: >> >> http://www.pcausa.com/Utilities/UsbSnoop/ >> >> That should give us enough info to at least tell if the protocol is >> similar to other scanners. >> >> allan > > The requested snoop output is bundled together with the corresponding > small black and white image and posted at: > > ?http://www.drivehq.com/file/df.aspx/publish/mustekscanner/ > ?PublicFolder/mustek-a3-1200-pro.zip > > Please let me know what else I can do to help!
Well, it does alot of small control transfers, probably setting up registers. I'm not well-versed in such machines. Perhaps someone else will recognize it, or have time to compare to the existing mustek backends. allan -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
