[sane-devel] In progress: TRUST Imagery 9600SP (TECO_VM6552)

[m. allan noah]

On 4/3/08, Gerard Klaver <gerard at gkall.hobby.nl> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 14:56 +0200, Ralph D. Ungermann wrote:
>  > > On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 8:41 AM, Ralph D. Ungermann wrote:
>  > >>
>  > >>  I'm about to adapt the teco3 backend to the VM6552.
>  > >>
>  > >>  My question: Is there still any public interest in backends for
>  > >>  such old scanners?
>  >
>  >
>  > m. allan noah wrote:
>  > > though there may not be much interest, we will accept patches if you
>  > > get it working and it compiles cleanly. we might even make you
>  > > maintainer of the code if you are not careful :)
>  >
>  >
>  > My scanner now runs fine! But unfortunately, it turned out to be not a
>  > patch, but a major rewrite (with 30% less lines). I presume, that my
>  > backend also solves major issues for the other supported scanners,
>  > chiefly with color scans and responsiveness (to cancel). But I have no
>  > way to test it for other teco models, and I don't want to fool millions
>  > of happy teco3 users.
>  >
>  > If there is anybody else out there using backend teco1, teco2, or teco3,
>  > I'm willing to unify and maintain that driver. But now I sit idle, until
>  > somebody googles and finds this email...
>  >
>  > Meanwhile: Anyone here need help coding or reviewing his code?
>  >
>  > -- ralph
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>
>
> Hello Ralph,
>
>  I am the maintainer of the teco2 backend, if you have a link (or send a
>  zip file with data to mailbox) to your backend i can have a look and add
>  improvements to the teco2 backend.
>
>  http://gkall.hobby.nl/scanner.html
>
>
>
>  PS. Frank Zago is the maintainer for the teco1 and teco3 backend.
>  --
>  --------
>  m.vr.gr.
>
> Gerard Klaver

Gerard- Sorry, I thought these backends were all unmaintained. I stand
corrected.

Can you say how similar the protocol is on all these machines? Is it
reasonable to combine the backends?

allan
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