[sane-devel] Backend driver for Canon CanoScan 4200f

2006-05-21 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, On 2006-04-20 20:46, Alfred Egger wrote: > I also an owner of the 4200f and I searched for information of the Chips > inside this scanner a while ago. According to this site the chips are: [...] > Maybe someone could integrate this information on the site I noticed above. Thanks! Your inf

[sane-devel] Backend driver for Canon CanoScan 4200f

2006-04-20 Thread Lauri Pirttiaho
Hello, Dave or some one else, do you have usb sniffer logs of this scanner somewhere? I would like to see the log of the boot of the scanner, since that would give some hint of what the controller chip is (or is not). In particular I could help you exclude the M5623 :), the one in the predecessor

[sane-devel] Backend driver for Canon CanoScan 4200f

2006-04-20 Thread Alfred Egger
Hello, > Is there a tool for searching the Archives for info about scanner chips, > etc.? I also an owner of the 4200f and I searched for information of the Chips inside this scanner a while ago. According to this site the chips are: http://www.sane-project.org/unsupported/canon-4200f.html c

[sane-devel] Backend driver for Canon CanoScan 4200f

2006-04-20 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, On 2006-04-19 12:17, David S. Yoder wrote: > If not, I'm willing to try (I have sufficient programming experience) > but have > no experience in developing drivers for Linux, so I will need some guidance > in order to comply with the SANE group's guidelines/principles/rules. http://www.sane-

[sane-devel] Backend driver for Canon CanoScan 4200f

2006-04-20 Thread Ulrich Deiters
The problem is (probably) not so much the programming, but knowing the machine codes. Unless someone does a good job of bus traffic sniffing, it is not possible to do much. Regards, Ulrich Deiters -- Prof. Dr. Ulrich K. Deiters __ Institut f. Physikalisc

[sane-devel] Backend driver for Canon CanoScan 4200f

2006-04-20 Thread David S. Yoder
Hi All, Being somewhat new to Linux and very new to user/developer groups, I have a number of questions: From the SANE Supported devices and a short scan of the Archive library, it seems apparent that the Canon CanoScan 4200f is NOT supported, also that Canon is not likely to provide the interfa