On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 2:57 PM, scar <scar at drigon.com> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > m. allan noah @ 01/03/2010 03:03 PM: >> There is clearly a need for an inexpensive A3 sized scanner which >> works with sane. It seems that so far, no one with the development >> skills has stepped up to do the needed reverse engineering and >> programming. I suppose a group of users could get together a bounty to >> spur development. The only problem is that cheap scanners often have >> very expensive drivers :( > > since i require an inexpensive A3 scanner, i plan on purchasing one of > these soon, i have not found any other options. ?Mustek appears to have > a linux driver on their Taiwanese website, although i read reports here > of it not working. ?if all else fails i will attempt to install Windows > XP in a virtual machine and use the scanner through there, which was > also a possible solution i read on this list. > > naturally i would want to help develop a working sane driver. ?i do not > program but i have a degree in computer engineering so my background > should be adequate enough to provide some help, given there is someone > to provide me with suitable advice on how precisely to help.
Sure- If you get one of these, we would need you to get a trace of the windows driver making a small black and white scan, using this tool: http://www.pcausa.com/Utilities/UsbSnoop/ That should give us enough info to at least tell if the protocol is similar to other scanners. allan > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > iEYEAREIAAYFAktSGkAACgkQXhfCJNu98qCDzACgsOSTiqqXlJz1FHPNlM5jvq6v > m4UAmgKPLK9QnZou1oUry6vR6CFRJDg9 > =B/c9 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > ? ? ? ? ? ? to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org > -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
