[sane-devel] Canan CanoScan 8400F backend driver

2011-08-29 Thread John McGill
The 8400f is reported to have a GL843 processor. Study the source code of the genesys backend. You may be able to clone the settings of an existing supported GL843 scanner. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CheckIfScannerIsClone Stef Voltz maintains the genesys backend and may be able to help you.

[sane-devel] Visioneer Strobe Pro USB

2010-12-19 Thread John McGill
About a year ago I donated several sheetfed scanners that I bought on ebay to Stef Voltz. Most were genesys scanners, but I included Strobe Pro USB. He did some preliminary USB snoop logs, but I don't think he started writing a backend for this scanner. He did tell me the following: "It has a Z80

[sane-devel] NO scanner is now recognized. :(

2010-09-27 Thread John McGill
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompileSaneFromSource On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Mr Fair Go wrote: > >> I compiled and installed the latest sane-backends-1.0.21 and tried to > >> use it with a Canon DR-2010C scanner, > > G'day! > > I have a Canon MX310 which was scanning OK, but only i

[sane-devel] Ubuntu Community Documentation

2010-07-06 Thread John McGill
Dear list, Over the last several weeks, I have tried to improve the Ubuntu Community Documentation for Scanners. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Scanners I wrote a few guides on updating to the latest version of sane, setting permissions and how to check to see if your unsupported scanner is a

[sane-devel] Support for HP Scanjet G4050

2010-04-28 Thread John McGill
ane before > 1.0.21 mistakenly reported all unknown GL chips as 843... > > allan > > On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 2:33 PM, John McGill > wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Alejandro Imass wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> >

[sane-devel] Support for HP Scanjet G4050

2010-04-28 Thread John McGill
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Alejandro Imass wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone have this scanner working with Sane? > > Thanks, > Alejandro Imass > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Sen

[sane-devel] Sheetfed Scanners

2008-11-02 Thread John McGill
om: Gerhard Jaeger > Subject: Re: [sane-devel] Sheetfed Scanners > To: jmcgill at bigfoot.com, "SANE-List" lists.alioth.debian.org> > Date: Friday, October 31, 2008, 3:21 AM > Hi Jack, > > On Thursday 30 October 2008 19:53:46 John McGill wrote: > [SNIPSNAP] > >

[sane-devel] Visioneer RoadWarrior Scanner, GL842

2008-07-05 Thread John McGill
Hello, I have a Visioneer RoadWarrior scanner which has the GL842 chip. This is a small, mobile document scanner, not a flatbed scanner. It also has an ICD RAM EDO 4MB that is labelled IS41LV16256B-35TL. This is a link to the results of SniffUSB v1.8 while scanning my business card at 200dpi, b