<div dir="ltr"><div>Hello Ralph,<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I don't know which chip the LiDE 30 uses, but the LiDE 220 definitely uses a GL124.</div><div><br></div><div>I think that we are technologically rapidly approaching a point where it is no longer viable to reverse engineer an OEM product. IMO it is far more important to have a good and stable framework so the OEMs / chipset providers are encouraged to have a team writing Linux drivers for their scanner products. They may even see the benefit of defining a device class...<br></div><div><br></div><div>So I would guess that a collection of devices is certainly useful for verification, but not necessarily so for development, and even so, the collection could quickly become obsolete.</div><div><br></div><div>Perhaps a list could be made with user e-mail addresses and the hardware they own ?<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>J.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Op za 5 okt. 2019 om 09:54 schreef Ralph Little <<a href="mailto:skelband@gmail.com">skelband@gmail.com</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Hi devs,<div dir="auto">Yesterday I won a canon lide 30 for 50p on eBay. I thought it would be fun to play with, but it occurred to me that I don't know if, as a project, if we have many scanner examples for testing and verifying regressions. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Its a bit difficult writing software for hardware that we do not possess. It is also a bit scary making anything but trivial changes without hardware to retest on. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">We have some open issues about the canoscan lide 220 but I don't know if any member here actually possesses one of the scanners it being supposedly a gl848.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Some of these machines, particularly some of the older ones can be picked up for peanuts with a keen eye and a regular look on eBay, Craigslist and Gumtree. :D</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Has anyone considered putting together a more official collection of representative hardware for device dev work?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Cheers</div><div dir="auto">Ralph</div></div>
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