# Re: Acer Scanners

Menaka Lashitha Bandara (lashi@alphalink.com.au)
Sat, 21 Aug 1999 14:38:13 +1000

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Greg Lehey wrote:

> On Saturday, 21 August 1999 at 13:46:52 +1000, Menaka Lashitha Bandara wrote:
> > I have an Acer 610S scanner, and the only thing stopping me from
> > deleting my windows partition is the scanner. Since Sane doesn't have
> > support for this, I wrote to the people at Acer. They asked me a few
> > questions, which I would rather someone more experienced answered. He
> > also wanted some help if they were to write a driver... so who shall
> > I recommend?
>
> Funny you should mention that. Gary <gmp@superlink.net> has done a
> driver for the 620S, but he did it without any support from Acer, and
> he wasn't very happy with the results, so it wouldn't be a bad idea to
> follow up. At least you have somebody to talk to at Acer :-)
>
> I have a 620U (USB connect), and I'd really like to write a driver for
> it. Is your Acer contact in Australia? If so, I could have a chat
> with him. I'd also be prepared to do the work, especially if they pay
> for it. We should probably follow this up off-line.
>
> Greg
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Greg. I dont know if they want to pay for it. But I don't think they intend to
release their source code. They are being real pricks. I wrote to them and told
them that Linux is gaining more of the software market, and told them that Umax
etc. have given their specs away.

I think that Acer wants to create and distribute a binary driver. I don't like
that because I'm constnatly changing kernels, and I won't be able to use a
pre-compiled driver. Anyway, here's the message they sent me:

Subject: The scanner driver for Linux
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 12:19:30 +0800
From: Regis Hsu <RegisHsu@api.com.tw>
To: "'lashi@alphalink.com.au'" <lashi@alphalink.com.au>

Dear Lashi,

I am the manager of Imaging B.U of Acer Peripherals,Inc.

I got your mail from our CSD. As you know, we haven't provide the
scanner driver for Linux, because we don't know how much market share in the
world and we don't have capability to develop the driver on Linux either.

Could you give the answer as following questions ?

1. Do we need to open the source code if we use GNU C/C++ to compile our
code ?
2. Could you help me to develop the driver ? or somebody can help me ?
3. Does Linux support USB ?

Thanks for your information and advance.

Regis

********************************
* Regis Hsu ³\^»¨ *
* Manager *
* R&D Dept. *
* Imaging B.U. *
* *
* 8 Jihu Road, Neihu, *
* Taipei 114 Taiwan, R.O.C., *
* Tel: +886-2-27998600 Ext : 198 *
* E-mail: RegisHsu@api.com.tw <mailto:RegisHsu@api.com.tw> *
********************************

I want to know whether I should send your name to him as someone who knows more
better about Linux. I've only been usnig linux for about 3 months.

Anyway, give me a mail back and tell me what I should do.

Lashi

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Greg Lehey wrote:

> On Saturday, 21 August 1999 at 13:46:52 +1000, Menaka Lashitha Bandara wrote:
> > I have an Acer 610S scanner, and the only thing stopping me from
> > deleting my windows partition is the scanner. Since Sane doesn't have
> > support for this, I wrote to the people at Acer. They asked me a few
> > questions, which I would rather someone more experienced answered. He
> > also wanted some help if they were to write a driver... so who shall
> > I recommend?

> Funny you should mention that. Gary <gmp@superlink.net> has done a
> driver for the 620S, but he did it without any support from Acer, and
> he wasn't very happy with the results, so it wouldn't be a bad idea to
> follow up. At least you have somebody to talk to at Acer :-)

> I have a 620U (USB connect), and I'd really like to write a driver for
> it. Is your Acer contact in Australia? If so, I could have a chat
> with him. I'd also be prepared to do the work, especially if they pay
> for it. We should probably follow this up off-line.

> Greg
> --
> See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers
> finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key

> --
> Source code, list archive, and docs: http://www.mostang.com/sane/
> To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe sane-devel | mail majordomo@mostang.com

Greg. I dont know if they want to pay for it. But I don't think they intend to release their source code. They are being real pricks. I wrote to them and told them that Linux is gaining more of the software market, and told them that Umax etc. have given their specs away.

I think that Acer wants to create and distribute a binary driver. I don't like that because I'm constnatly changing kernels, and I won't be able to use a pre-compiled driver. Anyway, here's the message they sent me:

Subject: The scanner driver for Linux
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 12:19:30 +0800
From: Regis Hsu <RegisHsu@api.com.tw>
To: "'lashi@alphalink.com.au'" <lashi@alphalink.com.au>

Dear Lashi,
I am the manager of Imaging B.U of Acer Peripherals,Inc.
I got your mail from our CSD. As you know, we haven't provide the
scanner driver for Linux, because we don't know how much market share in the
world and we don't have capability to develop the driver on Linux either.
Could you give the answer as following questions ?
1. Do we need to open the source code if we use GNU C/C++ to compile our
code ?
2. Could you help me to develop the driver ? or somebody can help me ?
3. Does Linux support USB ?
Thanks for your information and advance.
Regis

********************************
* Regis Hsu ³\^»¨ *
* Manager *
* R&D Dept. *
* Imaging B.U. *
* *
* 8 Jihu Road, Neihu, *
* Taipei 114 Taiwan, R.O.C., *
* Tel: +886-2-27998600 Ext : 198 *
* E-mail: RegisHsu@api.com.tw <mailto:RegisHsu@api.com.tw> *
********************************

I want to know whether I should send your name to him as someone who knows more better about Linux. I've only been usnig linux for about 3 months.

Anyway, give me a mail back and tell me what I should do.

Lashi

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