[sane-devel] USB scanners page.

Frank Zago fzago@austin.rr.com
Thu, 03 Oct 2002 08:34:51 -0500


Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 09:45:28PM -0500, Frank Zago wrote:
> 
>>For big endian machine (eg PPC), a linux kernel 2.4.20 will be necessary to 
>>work with the Umax Astra 2200.
>>This is also true for any scanner using control messages.
> 
> 
> Oops. Is this a problem with the scanner module or low level USB
> system? I mean, does it also occur when using libusb?

No. That was a bug in the scanner driver. It was swapping some data where it 
shouldn't have. Since this is a no-op on little endian, it went unnoticed for a 
long time. libusb is not affected.

Frank.