Quoting Henning Meier-Geinitz <henn...@meier-geinitz.de>: > Hi, > > On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 08:35:39PM -0500, golan...@aol.com wrote: > > I've noticed lots of talk of the genesys backend working with canon > > lide 35, 40, 50 and 60 but what of Lide 80? Is support already in > > there or is it planned? > > It doesn't work yet. > > As none of the genesys developers seems to own such a scanner, it's up > to you to add it to the backend. See the ongoing discussions on this > list about the genesys backend. > > As a quick'n'dirty trst. you could get the source code of > sane-backends (1.0.17 at least) and change the code of > backend/genesys_devices.c (at the end): > > Change > > {0x04a9, 0x221c, &canon_lide_60_model}, > > to > > {0x04a9, 0x2214, &canon_lide_60_model}, > > > and also add > > usb 0x04a9 0x2214 > > to genesys.conf. > > Bye, > Henning
For quick, that provides a nice start. If I remember from some of the available comments, the LiDE 80 has a Holtek HT82V36 chip which has some registers to initialize in the frontend, so differences might be needed there. best regards, Gerald