[sane-devel] Microtek ScanMaker s400

[m. allan noah]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Aaron Faanes <dafrito at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a Microtek ScanMaker s400; it's currently unsupported, and I couldn't
> find any other attempts at a working backend. I'd like to take a stab at
> getting it working. sane-find-scanner recognizes a SQ113 chipset, which is
> apparently supported by the mustek_usb2 backend. So, a few questions:
>
> How could I force SANE to use the mustek_usb2 driver?

IIRC, that backend has the ProductID hard coded. You would need to
download the source for sane-backends, change the product id, then
recompile/reinstall.

> How likely would my scanner suffer an untimely demise by doing this?

Depends on how fast you can pull the power cord :)

allan
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