[sane-devel] help offer to support Canon 9950F

[Brian J Densmore]

Breacher wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I subscribed to this list on Henning Meier-Geinitz' suggestion. I am the owner 
>of a Canon CanoScan 9950F scanner, which i would like very much to be usable 
>exclusively with (X)sane. It's an awesome scanner, 4800 dpi on hardware 
>alone, with racks to scan an entire photo film, or 16 slides at once, ...
>
>For the genesys backend to support it without a developer to own such a 
>device, i am willing to test stuff that a developer writes blindly and report 
>how it works out. I'm ready to make online sessions with the developer with a 
>ssh account on my Debian box. I will say on IRC what happens with the scanner 
>as the developer tests it.
>
>So please, who is working on the genesys backend at the moment contact me to 
>further this project. I believe supporting big scanners would bring even more 
>credibility to Sane.
>
>Thanks
>
>Breacher
>
>  
>
I also am interested in getting these features working for the genesys 
backend. I have a Canon
CanoScan 8400F, the little sibling to the 9950F. I am willing to test 
and develop. In fact I am
beginning to work on modifying the existing genesys driver to support 
this scanner anyway.

Thanks,
Brian JD