[sane-devel] plustek backend & buttons

[Gerhard Jaeger]

On Donnerstag, 1. Februar 2007, Jean-Christophe 'Jice' Cardot wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm developping a scanner's buttons GUI + daemon based on sane 
> (http://cardot.net/KScannerButtons and sanebuttonsd daemon), and I added 
> support for the plustek backend recently (not on the dopwnloadable version).
> 
> For one user it works perfectly (Canon N67OU/LIDE20), but I've reports that 
> this scanner: "KYE/Genius ColorPage-HR6 V2 USB flatbed scanner"
> does not work. The buttons are not recognised at all by the backend.
> 
> The user tells me that the scanbuttonsd daemon (that you can find on 
> sourceforge) can partially handle this scanner as long as you patch the 
> sources to add the scanner usb ids. (but this one does not make use of sane 
> at all, they manage the scanner directly with libusb)
> 
> Can sby please help me? Is the plustek maintainer reading this list?
Yes.

What excactly do you need? I don't get the message! I've never had
such a device on my desk, so you'll the user to help you to find
out how the buttons are connected and in the end how the
ASIC is configured to read out the values correctly.

- Gerhard

BTW: What do you mean by "adding the usb ids"? To what?