Breacher wrote: >Hi, > >I subscribed to this list on Henning Meier-Geinitz' suggestion. I am the owner >of a Canon CanoScan 9950F scanner, which i would like very much to be usable >exclusively with (X)sane. It's an awesome scanner, 4800 dpi on hardware >alone, with racks to scan an entire photo film, or 16 slides at once, ... > >For the genesys backend to support it without a developer to own such a >device, i am willing to test stuff that a developer writes blindly and report >how it works out. I'm ready to make online sessions with the developer with a >ssh account on my Debian box. I will say on IRC what happens with the scanner >as the developer tests it. > >So please, who is working on the genesys backend at the moment contact me to >further this project. I believe supporting big scanners would bring even more >credibility to Sane. > >Thanks > >Breacher > > > I also am interested in getting these features working for the genesys backend. I have a Canon CanoScan 8400F, the little sibling to the 9950F. I am willing to test and develop. In fact I am beginning to work on modifying the existing genesys driver to support this scanner anyway.
Thanks, Brian JD