[sane-devel] Newbie questions

2012-07-25 Thread Yury Tarasievich
Talking generally of unwritten backends, it's quite a shame, that the development cycle isn't broken down to some essential phases based on what hardware is used in the scanner, and much better documented. And yes, I've read backend-writing.txt, and everything in the doc/ section, and sifted

[sane-devel] Newbie questions

2012-07-25 Thread m. allan noah
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 2:58 AM, Yury Tarasievich yury.tarasievich at gmail.com wrote: Talking generally of unwritten backends, it's quite a shame, that the development cycle isn't broken down to some essential phases based on what hardware is used in the scanner, and much better documented.

[sane-devel] Newbie questions

2012-07-24 Thread Paul Newall
: m. allan noah kitno...@gmail.com To: clydes at theworld.com Cc: Sane Developers sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 1:57 AM Subject: Re: [sane-devel] Newbie questions I suppose you have seen this: http://www.chmil.org/hp4600linux/ It might at give you some hints

[sane-devel] Newbie questions

2012-07-24 Thread cly...@theworld.com
No, I have not seen this. And thanks for the advice on the attachment. I did take a look and it compiles and all... but it fails with errors: usb_get_driver_np returned -1 claim failed with error -1 Clyde I suppose you have seen this: http://www.chmil.org/hp4600linux/ It might at give you

[sane-devel] Newbie questions

2012-07-24 Thread Clyde Shappee
money rather than time on the problem. --- On Tue, 7/24/12, Paul Newall p.newalls at ntlworld.com wrote: From: Paul Newall p.newa...@ntlworld.com Subject: Re: [sane-devel] Newbie questions To: clydes at theworld.com Cc: Sane Developers sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org Date: Tuesday, July 24

[sane-devel] Newbie questions

2012-07-24 Thread m. allan noah
it. Maybe I will look for a more Linux compatible scanner and throw money rather than time on the problem. --- On *Tue, 7/24/12, Paul Newall p.newalls at ntlworld.com* wrote: From: Paul Newall p.newalls at ntlworld.com Subject: Re: [sane-devel] Newbie questions To: clydes at theworld.com Cc

[sane-devel] Newbie questions

2012-07-23 Thread cly...@theworld.com
Hello all, Pardon me if I start out a little rough around the edges, but here goes. I'd like to write a back end for the HP 4670 scanner which is currently not supported. Attached is the output from the find scanners command. I am not a strong programmer, but rather and embedded hardware

[sane-devel] Newbie questions

2012-07-23 Thread cly...@theworld.com
Hello all, Pardon me if I start out a little rough around the edges, but here goes. I'd like to write a back end for the HP 4670 scanner which is currently not supported. Attached is the output from the find scanners command. I am not a strong programmer, but rather and embedded hardware

[sane-devel] Newbie questions

2012-07-23 Thread m. allan noah
I suppose you have seen this: http://www.chmil.org/hp4600linux/ It might at give you some hints. For a proper starting point, you would want to take a look at an existing backend, and find one that suits your programming style. Also, please learn to cut and past text, instead of attaching