[sane-devel] Canon Lide30: success!

[Gerhard Jaeger]

Hi there,

On Mittwoch, 29. Januar 2003 22:49, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> not being the plustek maintainer but responding anyway:
>
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 12:53:08PM +0100, David Faure wrote:
> > * why isn't plustek-sane part of sane? Wouldn't this make things much
> > easier for all owners of a canon (and other) scanner?
>
> Wrong question :-) The Plustek backend is included in SANE. You may
> need the updates from the plustek backend page if you have an older
> version of the source code, however. With sane-backends-1.0.10-pre3
> you should be uptodate.

See my mail!

>
> > (I think it's also time to close down the ucanoscan project on
> > sourceforge, if anyone of that project is listening - it's very confusing
> > to first find this stuff, which is in very alpha state, to only later
> > find out that the plustek driver handles Canon scanners just fine... But
> > well if becomes part of sane out of the box, then people won't have to
> > worry about that.)
>
> There are 5 or 6 projects for NS LM983x based scanners. I've removed
> all of them from the SANE projects file and only added the
> canonscanner project to the lists because it provides support for the
> 1210 (at least for FreeBSD) which doesn't seem to be supported by any
> backend.
>
Some of the remaining LM983x projects have stopped their work and 
put a link the Plustek page. Some have not (the sourceforge project for
the LiDE30), as this guy plays around with the code on his own for to improve
the image settings, we're in contact and try to use each others results...

Then 1210 might also be supported as well by the Plustek backend, but I
don't have any test device and no requests about that...

Maybe I should rename the backend to merlin or LM983x, at least for these
devices...

Cheers
  Gerhard