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<h1>Re: Scanner Development</h1>
<b>Roderick Klein</b> (<a href="mailto:rwklein@wxs.nl"><i>rwklein@wxs.nl</i></a>)<br>
<i>Mon, 28 Jun 1999 22:53:16 +0000</i>
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M. Been wrote:<br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; Dear Sirs,</i><br>
<i>&gt; A customer of ours gave us this email address, telling us that you</i><br>
<i>&gt; keep yourself busy with developping scanners and other peripherals in</i><br>
<i>&gt; Linux Suse.</i><br>
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Hello Mister Been,<br>
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First of all there are many Linux distributions and for some versions<br>
you need a recompile before they work under a specific version (as far<br>
as I know). To start, go to <a href="http://www.mostang.com/sane/">http://www.mostang.com/sane/</a> for more<br>
information. <br>
On <a href="http://www.mostang.com/sane/sane-support.html">http://www.mostang.com/sane/sane-support.html</a> you see all the<br>
different recompiles .It is not ment negative, but how far are you with<br>
Linux. Its great that Trust wants to look in supporting Linux, but you<br>
mention Linux Suse, this is just one of the Linux distributions. My<br>
question is, what do you mean with Linux Suse, do you think that this IS<br>
Linux ?!?!?<br>
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<i>&gt; We bring different computer peripherals on the market under the brand</i><br>
<i>&gt; Trust. More and more endusers are asking us questions on the field of getting</i><br>
<i>&gt; the equipment working under Linux.</i><br>
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There is a big change that some of them are already supported because<br>
they contain a specific chipset that is used by more manufactors.<br>
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For all the people on this list, this is not to start a old debate, but<br>
a question I just have to ask. I love to see Linux grow and finaly shake<br>
up Microsoft to create something better then Windows (if this will ever<br>
happen!!??). But why Mister Been have you never given response to OS/2<br>
users who asked for support for OS/2. OS/2 had a big base of users. I<br>
use my scanner under WIN/OS2 (Windows 3.1 under OS/2). For OS/2 I have<br>
never seen any support for scanners (except third party stuff and SANE).<br>
But that is off topic. I you want to respond to this question, please<br>
send an email to me.<br>
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<i>&gt; Do you have some documentation on developping Scanners in Linux for</i><br>
<i>&gt; our own purposes in text format?</i><br>
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For more info look at <a href="http://www.mostang.com/sane/">http://www.mostang.com/sane/</a>.<br>
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Before you look any futher you should look at backends that have already<br>
been written. This is just gamble, but Trust does not make its hardware<br>
and chips it self (as far as I know). When I do a trace via www.fcc.gov<br>
on my Trust 2400SP (via FCC number) I end up at Teco information<br>
products in Taiwan. And there you can also download a driver for a<br>
Scorpio scanner..... Also I have IMPOS/2 (a commerciel scanner<br>
application for OS/2). When I select a mustek scanner and give the<br>
command to scan, the scanner moves a inch and then stops. Just stupid<br>
luck ? Or a hint! My suggestion is, could the Trust scanner already be<br>
supported and with a little bit work with a backend that has already<br>
been written ?!?!?<br>
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Besides the SCSI scanners that work great, only a few parallel scanners<br>
work, but many<br>
parallel scanners under Linux are forgotten.<br>
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I you going to support Linux, please do the following, go open source!<br>
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1 Write the backends and release the source codes and at then at them <br>
to the SANE project. This way other Linux versions, and none Linux<br>
platforms can also be supported. <br>
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br>
Sane and Linux are a succes because they ARE open source!<br>
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br>
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2 Release the specs and find a few people who want to write them.<br>
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Sane has even been ported to OS/2 and there are many happy OS/2 users<br>
that use SANE. Many Linux versions are also supported. <br>
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<i>&gt; Kind Regards,</i><br>
<i>&gt; Aashima Technology B.V.</i><br>
<i>&gt; Trust Support Department</i><br>
<i>&gt; M. Been</i><br>
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Thank you <br>
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Roderick Klein<br>
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