# Re: [dev] Status of NS LM983x USB support (e.g. Bearpaw, Canon 650U, Plustek OpticPro U12)

From: Jaeger, Gerhard (gjaeger@sysgo.de)
Date: Sun Apr 08 2001 - 23:07:40 PDT

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  Hi Henning, hi list,

  I'd like to support you in writing such a backend. I have obtained source code
  from Plustek and a test device (Optic Pro UT12).
  I first planned to integrate the USB support into the current Plustek-backend
  (for parallel port scanners), but as there are quite a lot of other LM983x based
  scanners, I think it will be much better to have one "generic" backend for these
  devices.

  As soon as I have some time, I will check the stuff that you already have.
  Gerhard

  On Son, 08 Apr 2001, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote:
  > Hi,
  >
  > I just wanted to ask everyone who worked on drivers or other programs
  > for LM983x based scanners what's the status of this work. I had quite
  > a lot of questions about these scanners and some people offered help.
  > If I remeber correctly, there is even a CVS repository for some code.
  >
  > Should we set up a page summarizing the available docs and the code
  > that was written until now? I could do that. Maybe a mailing list
  > would be nice? If there are some people willing to write code, maybe a
  > sourceforge account would be appropriate (including mailing list and
  > CVS)?
  >
  > The idea was to write one backend for all the 983x (x=1 + 2) based
  > scanners and just add the different settings of each scanner (e.g. RAM
  > size, detector type, buttons) to some sort of ini file or some
  > constants in the code. My suggestion is to add a file
  > sanei/sanei_lm983x.c (or similar) to include the low level read and
  > write functions for the chip.
  >
  > I will probably have some time in the next weeks (or weekends) to
  > write some code and do testing. In the last months I haven't done
  > much, my test program can be found on http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/download.html
  > however. I myself own a Mustek BearPaw 1200 and 2400.
  >
  > There is a lot of documentation about the chip set and we have even
  > source code for Windows drivers so it should be possible to write a
  > SANE backend, it's just a lot of work.
  >
  > Comments?
  >
  > Bye,
  > Henning
  >
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