[sane-devel] Microtek ScanMaker 5800

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 08:16:09AM +0800, csj wrote:
> The note about the Microtek ScanMaker 5800 on
> 
> http://www.sane-project.org/unsupported/microtek-scanmaker-5800.html
> 
> seems clear enough. But has the "unsupported" status changed?

If it had changed, I would have changed the unsupported page also (an
the status).

> A search of the mailing list archive with keywords "Microtek
> 5800" didn't turn up any results. I'm interested in the status of
> the ScanMaker 5800 support after I read through the list of
> scanners in "libsane.db" of Debian's sane version 1.0.16-4
> (unstable). Is the file really a list of "USB Vendor/Product IDs
> for scanners supported by SANE" or just a list of scanners that
> hotplug recognizes?

It is a list of scanners. Or even more broad, it is a list of devices
which are capable of transmitting images to the host and which
theoretically could be supported by SANE. So being listed there
doesn't mean "supported by SANE".

Bye,
  Henning