[sane-devel] Uniscan D50 scanner cannot work

[Gernot Hassenpflug]

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 4:59 AM, Ondrej Zary <linux at rainbow-software.org> wrote:
> On Thursday 20 May 2010 16:39:46 Gernot Hassenpflug wrote:
>> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Ondrej Zary <linux at rainbow-software.org>
> wrote:
>> > On Thursday 20 May 2010, Gernot Hassenpflug wrote:
>> >> 2010/5/20 ?? <bzongbzongbzong at 163.com>:
>> >
>> > This is from Uniscan D50 windows INF files:
>> > ; UMAX Astra 4800/4850 for Windows 98
>> > ; Writing by Vikas on 16th May 2003.
>> > ; Copyright by UMAX Data Sys. Inc.
>> > ...
>> > %Leopard.DeviceDesc24% = Leopard.Scanner,  USB\VID_1606&PID_0170
>> >
>> > This is from UMAX Astra 4800:
>> > ; UMAX Astra 4800 for Windows XP
>> > ; Writing by Wen-Yung Huang on 24th Dec 2002.
>> > ; Copyright by UMAX Data Sys. Inc.
>> > ...
>> > %Leopard.DeviceDesc% = Leopard.Scanner,  USB\VID_1606&PID_0350
>> >
>> > So Uniscan D50 seems to be very close to UMAX Astra 4800/4850, if not the
>> > same with only ID changed.
>>
>> Hi,
>> Thanks for the useful information. It will be interesting to report
>> what sane-find-scanner from SANE 1.0.21 reports then. The 4800/4850 is
>> not in the list either supported or unsupported. The 4700 appears to
>> be a Genesys device (GL646/660) so perhaps these two are as well. If
>> you have both these devices any chance of posting the results for them
>> both?
>
> Unfortunately, I don't have any of them. I just downloaded the D50 driver from
> some chinese website and examined it.

I see. Well, thank you very much for your effort. Let us see what the
OP reports back with the latest SANE.

Best wishes,
Gernot Hassenpflug