[sane-devel] Fw: Re: Portable Scanners

Gigi Trezzi luigi.trezzi at alice.it
Wed Sep 16 07:17:25 UTC 2009


Thanks,
I have read the Conrad's mail, but I do not succeed to understand where
to find the patch and where to insert the patch 
backend/gt68xx_devices.c 
because I have the rows gt68xx in this position: /etc/sane.d/gt68xx.conf
I must make un' other rows? 
Thanks





Il giorno mer, 16/09/2009 alle 06.30 +0200, stef ha scritto:
> Le mardi 15 septembre 2009 17:10:43 Gigi Trezzi, vous avez écrit :
> > Hi,
> > I have need of installing my IrisscanExpress2 on my OS fedora11, because
> > it is a gift of my sons.
> > How I can make in order to make to recognize it from linux?
> >  Thanks
> >
> 
> 	Hello,
> 
> 	there seems to have no support for your scanner in any release of SANE. 
> However there was an experimental patch for the gt68xx backend to add support 
> for it. You can have the details at
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2008-February/020933.html 
> 
> 	So I think that if you want to have your scanner work you need to have get 
> SANE's source code, patch and compile it. If you want to do such the outline 
> is to:
> 	- have a compiler installed (gcc package)
> 	- have the libusb installed with all needed include (often in a libusb-devel
> 		 package)
> 	- get sane-backends sources from http://www.sane-project.org/source.html and
> 		unpack them in some directory
> 	- patch the gt68xx.conf.in and gt68xx_devices.c files
> 	- configure and compile the sources
> 	- test it locally before installing in case of success
> 	
> 	When can provide you with more guidance if you need.
> 
> Regards,
> 	Stef
> 
> 
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