On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Aaron Faanes <dafrito at gmail.com> wrote: > I have a Microtek ScanMaker s400; it's currently unsupported, and I couldn't > find any other attempts at a working backend. I'd like to take a stab at > getting it working. sane-find-scanner recognizes a SQ113 chipset, which is > apparently supported by the mustek_usb2 backend. So, a few questions: > > How could I force SANE to use the mustek_usb2 driver?
IIRC, that backend has the ProductID hard coded. You would need to download the source for sane-backends, change the product id, then recompile/reinstall. > How likely would my scanner suffer an untimely demise by doing this? Depends on how fast you can pull the power cord :) allan -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"