Hi, thanks for your report.
Ken Harris wrote: > I have a Minolta DImage Scan Dual III that I used on my Mac, and I was > wondering what would be needed to get it working under Linux. As you > may recall, Gary Wong posted a preliminary report a while back[1] about > trying to get it working -- with some work, he could make it scan a > slide at low resolution, but without calibration or focus. (It uses a > variant of the Avision driver.) Well "variant"? It does use the Avision driver ... It basically just injects the proper ID ;-) The bulk status read is implemented the right way (tm) in the backend in the meantime: http://svn.exactcode.de/sane-avision/trunk/backend/ Just place those files in your sane-backend-1.0.15/backend directory and recompile. (I just added the ID, so just try to run it without any edit) Please report success. And if error happens provide the log of: SANE_DEBUG_AVISION=7 program 2> minolta.log Where program can be anything you prefer like scaniamge, xscanimage, ... > Sadly, I don't really have time to work on this, either. But I figured > I should pass along the patches, in case somebody else wants to take a > crack at it. As I said, I'm no expert at SANE or Linux USB, so about > all I'm good for is testing stuff to see if it works or not. You do not need much time, as long as you can provide some DEBUG_... logs we should get it working quite soon. > Actually, I'm good for one other thing: I can install Windows, and run > one of those USB-sniffer programs while scanning a slide. So if having > a complete log of what the Windows driver does while scanning a slide > (in USB-sniffer pseudocode) would be helpful, I can do that. > (Including, of course, the image that it generates.) If bigger problems arise this might come handy. So far trying the latest backend version from my Subversion repository is enough. Btw. There is a dedicated SANE/Avision homepage: http://www.exactcode.de/oss/avision/ And since yesterday a dedicated mailing list: http://www.exactcode.de/oss/avision/feedback.html PS: Please always CC the backend author, mails to the list might be overlooked during high workload ... Sincerely yours, -- René Rebe - Rubensstr. 64 - 12157 Berlin (Europe / Germany) http://www.exactcode.de | http://www.exactcode.de/t2 +49 (0)30 255 897 45