[sane-devel] help required to use umax astra 4100 on linux

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 10:56:11AM +0530, Parag N wrote:
>             I got name of chipset its a GL646_HP.  total output for umax
> astra 4100  of sane-find-scanner is =>
>                found USB scanner (vendor=0x0461 [Primax],
> product=0x038c    [USB
> Scanner], chip=GL646_HP) at libusb:004:002

Thanks. Please send the output of "sane-find-scanner -v -v".

>             One more thing i want to ask to develop a driver for this UMAX
> Astra 4100 i think i need to add backend in sane-backends source package and
> install it on RHEL to have it working fine. Is that right? and xsane will
> then recognise this scanner.

In principle this is right. In your case there is already a backend
for the gl646 chipset named "genesys". So you should add the scanner
to that backend. For discussions about the genesys backend please read
the archive of this mailing list.

Bye,
  Henning