# Info Peripherals' ImageReaderISA

Dennis Putnam (dap1@mindspring.com)
Sat, 27 Feb 1999 11:04:53 -0500

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As I understand the supported devices list, the subject scanner is not
supported by 'sane'. However, I have a couple of generic questions
that I can't seem to get from the documentation which apparenly
assumes a lot of knowledge on the part of the reader. For the purposes
of these questions, if it matters, I am running RH 5.2 (kernel 2.0.38)
i386.

1) It appears that 'sane' expects the Linux kernel to recognize the
device, correct? If so then where and how are the device drivers
added? Are the supported device drivers 'modprobe'd in (i.e. 'modprobe
sane-xxxx') or is there some kernel option I missed that brings in
drivers? Am I confusing the backend drivers with device drivers and if
so where does one get the device drivers if not included in the 'sane'
distribution?

Assuming my first surmise is correct then perhaps the following is
academic:

2) Where is the documentation for defining /dev/scanner? I assume
there probably is a symbolic link to the real /dev but how is it
created and how is it identified? There seems to be no documentation
about creating or linking the scanner device to /dev/scanner? I saw a
reference in the man pages to tools/find-scanner but that does not
exist (I installed the RH RPM).

3) Since the ImageReader is TWAIN compliant is there not a generic
TWAIN backend that should work with TWAIN compliant scanners? Or is
TWAIN an insufficiently defined standard to actually allow a generic
software solution?

4) The obvious: is anyone working on support for this scanner?

Thanks in advance for your replies.
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