[sane-devel] PENTAX DSmobile 600 scanner
found this in the mailing list archives: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2007-July/019594.html allan On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Kjell Andr? Lende post at mypanorama.org wrote: Hi, I was wondering if anyone has had any luck getting the PENTAX DSmobile 600 scanner to work in SANE/on Linux? I would very much like to purchase it, but there is no point in that if it doesn't work on my system... -- Regards, Kjell Andr? Lende -- 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
[sane-devel] PENTAX DSmobile 600 scanner
On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 16:18 +0200, Kjell Andr? Lende wrote: On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 21:24:31 +0200 Thierry de Coulon tcoulon at decoulon.ch wrote: On Tuesday 03 June 2008, Kjell Andr? Lende wrote: Hi, I was wondering if anyone has had any luck getting the PENTAX DSmobile 600 scanner to work in SANE/on Linux? I would very much like to purchase it, but there is no point in that if it doesn't work on my system... -- Regards, Kjell Andr? Lende Hi, I'm sorry to say that I had no success. It works with Mac OS and from a virtual WInblow machine... no luck with Linux Thierry That's too bad... It seems that the Visigo A4 or Visigo Travelscan 464 is supported through SANE [1]. Have anyone any experience with this scanner? Does it work well, is reliable etc? Alternately, has anyone gotten the Visigo PS465 Simplex [2] (an updated version, I guess) to work on Linux? I'm also interested in any other light-weight, portable and sturdy scanners that would work in Linux. It's for scanning documents, so a resolution of about 300 dpi should be plenty. 1. http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#Z-AMBIR 2. http://www.ambir.com/product.asp?item=PS465-SS -- Regards, Kjell Andr? Lende Check this http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/gt68xx-backend/ for the status of the Plustek OpticSlim M12 -- m.vr.gr. Gerard Klaver
[sane-devel] PENTAX DSmobile 600 scanner
Hi, I was wondering if anyone has had any luck getting the PENTAX DSmobile 600 scanner to work in SANE/on Linux? I would very much like to purchase it, but there is no point in that if it doesn't work on my system... -- Regards, Kjell Andr? Lende
[sane-devel] Pentax DSmobile 600
Hi, I too just bought this scanner because I found this: http://www.pentaxtech.com/Products/DSMobile/DSmobileUSB_featues_specs.html If there's no Lx driver on the CD, I'll ask Pentaxtech to provide one but as this page seems not to be linked to the main site anymore I have my doubts Meanwhile I'd like to tie up to Thierry's/ Bertriks postings: do you know who wrote the old driver? - Maybe he'd be able to give some hints on a new implementation ... - Lukas
[sane-devel] Pentax DSmobile 600
Quoting Lukas Matasovsky lukasm at lumat.at: --snip-- If there's no Lx driver on the CD, I'll ask Pentaxtech to provide one but as this page seems not to be linked to the main site anymore I have my doubts --snip-- - Lukas Lukas, Perhaps you could answer a question on the source that is said to be on the CD. CD includes Twain Data Source - does this mean that the Twain driver source is provided ? OR - does this mean that the data source is provided, which is useful for a Twain driver? Gerald
[sane-devel] Pentax DSmobile 600
Hello, I've purchased this cute little scanner partly because there were infos about a (proprietary) linux driver - but Pentax says it was for an older model and Linux support has been dropped. I thought I'd take a look at writing a backend, however I know little if anything about such things, including C language, so I have little hope. Anyway, I ran usb snoop from a vmware machine and I have put the resulting log here: http://www.decoulon.ch/dsmobile600_log.txt.zip In case anyone who knows more about this stuff wants to take a look. Thierry
[sane-devel] Pentax DSmobile 600
Thierry de Coulon wrote: Hello, I've purchased this cute little scanner partly because there were infos about a (proprietary) linux driver - but Pentax says it was for an older model and Linux support has been dropped. I thought I'd take a look at writing a backend, however I know little if anything about such things, including C language, so I have little hope. Anyway, I ran usb snoop from a vmware machine and I have put the resulting log here: http://www.decoulon.ch/dsmobile600_log.txt.zip In case anyone who knows more about this stuff wants to take a look. It looks like another parallel-over-USB protocol: * Control transfer with Value=82 is used to setup a bulk transfer. Bytes 4-7 in the transfer data contain the length of the bulk transfer in little endian encoding. * Control transfer with Value=83 is used to write data (even bytes in control data block is the register address and odd bytes are the data to write). * Control transfer with Value=84 is used to read data from the last register addressed. Although the protocol looks similar to other protocols I looked at, this particular implementation is new to me. Besides knowing the protocol to set/get data in the scanner controller, you'll also need to figure out what each register does (and I fear that's the hard part). Kind regards, Bertrik
