[sane-devel] Does the Canon Lide 80 work?

[Gerald Murray]

Quoting Henning Meier-Geinitz <henning at meier-geinitz.de>:

> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 08:35:39PM -0500, goland55 at aol.com wrote:
> > I've noticed lots of talk of the genesys backend working with canon 
> > lide 35, 40, 50 and 60 but what of Lide 80?  Is support already in 
> > there or is it planned?
> 
> It doesn't work yet.
> 
> As none of the genesys developers seems to own such a scanner, it's up
> to you to add it to the backend. See the ongoing discussions on this
> list about the genesys backend.
> 
> As a quick'n'dirty trst. you could get the source code of
> sane-backends (1.0.17 at least) and change the code of
> backend/genesys_devices.c (at the end):
> 
> Change
> 
>   {0x04a9, 0x221c, &canon_lide_60_model},
> 
> to
> 
>   {0x04a9, 0x2214, &canon_lide_60_model},
>   
> 
> and also add
> 
> usb 0x04a9 0x2214
> 
> to genesys.conf.
> 
> Bye,
>   Henning

For quick, that provides a nice start.  If I remember from some of the
available comments, the LiDE 80 has  a Holtek HT82V36 chip which 
has some registers to initialize in the frontend, so differences might
be needed there.

best regards,
Gerald