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Rayudu,<br>
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When I first decided to write a driver for my Lexmark X1185 I started
with the Lexmark USB Scanner Device Driver kit. It has many draw backs;
it's not open source; it's meant to work with old kernels (2.4x) -
compatible with RedHat 8.0, RedHat 9.0, Mandrake 9.0, Mandrake 9.1,
Mandrake 9.2, SuSE 8.1, SuSE 8.2 and SuSE 9.0.; it's built on a really
old version of SANE backend development libraries (1.0.13); you have to
hack frontend and backend makefiles to add support for linking in c++
code; it only works for the following AIO devices: X5250, X7170.<br>
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Any one of these is reason enough not to use it, but when you put them
all together you have to ask "why bother offering the kit in the first
place?". I abandoned this approach and wrote my own driver using usb
logfiles from scans on a Windows machine using the Lexmark driver. It
is now in the SANE backends CVS repository and works for all X1100
series scanners except the new X1195. It scans well, but I've received
complaints about image quality. This is because it doesn't do colour
calibration or dark compensation yet.<br>
<br>
regards,<br>
Fred Odendaal<br>
Rayudu Addagarla wrote:
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cite="mide42f06f70511180623j73b95debta08ff8b7237cfb2e@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">
<div>Hello <span id="_user_freshshelf@rogers.com">Fred Odendaal</span> </div>
<div><a
href="http://www.lexmark.com/US/products/info/linux/requirements.html">http://www.lexmark.com/US/products/info/linux/requirements.html</a></div>
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<div>Did you try this. on the above link see this <a
href="http://www.lexmark.com/US/products/info/linux/gnu_agreement8_rev2.html">Lexmark
USB Scanner Device Driver</a> </div>
<div> </div>
<div>Thanks</div>
<div><br>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/14/05, <b
class="gmail_sendername">Fred Odendaal</b> <<a
href="mailto:freshshelf@rogers.com">freshshelf@rogers.com</a>>
wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote"
style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">The
<span class="st0" id="st" name="st">Lexmark</span> X3300 is
unsupported by SANE. Its not even listed in the <a
onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"
href="http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html" target="_blank">supported
devices</a> web page.<br>
<br>
You could write your own driver, or make a request on this list that
someone write one. I wouldn't hold my breath trying to get someone to
write one. Its very difficult for the writer unless he has the exact
same model for testing. Also, <span class="st0" id="st" name="st">Lexmark</span>
is very close mouthed about their scanner technology, so the writer
needs to do a lot of scans on a Windows machine using the <span
class="st0" id="st" name="st">Lexmark</span> Windows driver and log
the usb transfers and reverse engineer the backend from the log files.<br>
<br>
regards,<br>
<span class="sg">Fred Odendaal</span>
<div><span class="e" id="q_1079240ef54ac60f_2"><br>
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Terrence van Ettinger wrote:
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cite="http://mid17272.23432.323694.608570@www.terrencevak.net"
type="cite">
<pre> I'm trying to use scanimage with my Lexmark 3300, and
sane-find-scanner shows it, but when I try to do scanimage, it can't
find the scanner. What do I need to do about this?
Thanks,
Terrence
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