[sane-devel] Canon LIDE 35/50

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 10:34:38PM +0100, Simon Keimer wrote:
> I've bought a Canon LIDE 35, which is not recognized by the sane-backends.
> When I started to gather information about the scanner to post it here, I 
> became confused by the lsusb -v output: It displays a LIDE 50. Also, on the 
> canon website there is no LIDE 35 listed (at least on the german one).

>From the chipset point of view, it is a Canon LiDE 50 (or 40). They
all use the same USB ids.

> My questions:
> - what will I have to do to make sane recognize my scanner? Just edit 
> libsane-canon.c and recompile or something like that? If so, whom is the 
> patch going to?

You must write a backend (driver) to support it. In fact, there is a
backend that intends to support such devices but it is not finished yet:
http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/genesys-backend/

> - If not, do you need more information than the attached lsusb -v output?

It's already on our website.

Bye,
  Henning