Ok, I can give it a try. Where do I start? The only thing to find out is probably the values for color scales and scan area, if I understand the config file correctly. Wouldn't it be a good starting point to just copy these values from a similar scanner to see how it goes? Cheers,
Chris On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 5:27 PM, m. allan noah <kitno...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 10:29 AM, Chris Mailer <chris.newsm...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> I´m currently trying to get a newer usb-scanner to work, which is, >> according the documentation, "to be added to genesys backend" >> (whatever that means). > > It means your scanner is not supported, but the genesys backend is the > best place to add support. Unfortunately, just adding the ID to the > config file is not enough, code would also need to be written. > Unfortunately, the genesys backend is effectively unmaintained. So, > unless you are able to reverse engineer the protocol and add your own > support, you might want to get a different scanner. > > allan > -- > "well, I stand up next to a mountain- and I chop it down with the edge > of my hand" -- sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" to sane-devel-requ...@lists.alioth.debian.org
