Hi again Oliver, Olaf Meeuwissen writes:
> Hi Oliver, > > Oliver Schwartz writes: > >>> Am 07.08.2020 um 12:27 schrieb Olaf Meeuwissen <[email protected]>: >>> >>> Torfinn Ingolfsen writes: >>> >>>> [...] >> >> This one (Perfection 2480 / 2580) definitely is supported by the snapscan >> backend. >> >>>> The firmware is not distributed by SANE for obvious reasons. If you >>>> have such a scanner, you will have to find and extract the firmware >>>> file from the (Windows) driver / install yourself. (I had a SnapScan >>>> scanner once, there was a SnapScan_XXX.bin file in a directory of the >>>> windows install; this was the firmware so I just copied it and >>>> configured SANE to use it) >>> >>> You should also be able to find it in the RPMs that you can download via >>> >>> http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/search/01/search/?OSC=LX >>> >>> The firmware file does not depend on the gcc version or CPU type. You >>> are looking for a file matching esfwXX.bin, IIRC, where the XX is a two >>> digit hexadecimal value. >> >> According to my notes, the firmware file for this scanner is named >> esfw41.bin. > > Would you mind adding your notes on firmware file names to the > snapscan.desc file so that everyone can see them? They can go in the > :comment. > > If you can do so before 2020-08-22, please push your changes on the > release/1.0.31 branch. Doh! I just stumbled upon #293 again which I had decided to take care of for our upcoming 1.0.31 release (and promptly forgotten about until looked at the milestone five minutes ago :-o). https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/-/issues/293 I'll assign that to you in addition to myself. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join
