# Re: RICOH Backend for SANE

Feico Dillema (dillema@acm.org)
Tue, 26 May 1998 10:54:44 +0200

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Your message dated: Mon, 25 May 1998 10:09:47 MST
>>>>>> On Mon, 25 May 1998 12:48:25 +0200, Feico Dillema <dillema@acm.org>
said:
>
> Feico> This weekend I wrote an preliminary SANE backend for my Ricoh
> Feico> scanner. It still needs some cleaning up and experimental
> Feico> testing (I couldn't get the tech-docs without the NDA thing),
> Feico> but it's basically operational. It runs at least on my
> Feico> NetBSD-i386-1.3.1 machine with sane-0.72.
>
>Sounds great! Given that you signed an NDA, will you be able to
>provide the source code for the backend or would this be limited to
>binaries only?

Ah, sorry. I wasn't very clear on that. I meant, I don't have any ricoh
tech-docs (because I had to sign an NDA that would prohibit free source
distribution). That's why I need to do some more `experimental testing' of the
scanner to see whether it supports more options and features than the most
obvious. I was lucky that the scanner complies with the SCSI-2 standard
relatvively well, so I had a basis for trying things out.

I'll probably work on it some more this weekend, and then make it available to
you.

Feico.

BTW: (x)scanimage (on NetBSD-Intel) seemed to have a problem when multiple
backends are pre-loaded. First I couldn't get it to work properly with
shared libs, which I think is a NetBSD/sane-configuring problem (I'll look
into that later), then after building a non-shared version scanimage core
dumps when it scans for devices. Is this a known problem? The backends that
I pre-loaded were: mustek hp pnm net. xscanimage with just pnm worked ok,
and now it works ok with pnm and my ricoh backend. If this not a known
problem, I'll see if I can find out what it is. If it is known, I'd like
to know where the problem is: in one or more of the backends or ???...

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