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<h1>Re: Logitech Support ?</h1>
<a href="mailto:becka@sunserver1.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de"><i>becka@sunserver1.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de</i></a><br>
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<i>&gt; &gt; You might want to step on their nerves until they either do one of the above</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; or agree to write SANE drivers themselves. As SANE can easily incorporate </i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; binary drivers, they might agree, though I do not think they actually would</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; spend any money in supporting an OS which has "only" a few percent of the </i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; market.</i><br>
<i>&gt; Well, I'll be glad to step on whatever nerves might be lying around. Any clue </i><br>
<i>&gt; on where to start poking and prodding for info?</i><br>
There should be a domain logitech.com. I suppose they have a Website and there<br>
you should find pointer to their technical and marketing staff.<br>
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Step on both of them adjusting the weight and rhythm to their desires ;-)<br>
I.e. tell the marketing folks they might sell more units with Linux-support<br>
and the technical folks how cool it would be to be supported on a real OS.<br>
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<i>&gt; &gt; The other way out would be to find someone who writes a driver. The parallel</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; port is something which is easy to monitor and hopefully the protocol spoken</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; is not too complex, so reverse-engeneering from the data on the bus shouldn't</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; be too hard.</i><br>
<i>&gt; Heh. Not to hard for someone who knows what they're doing. _I_, on the other </i><br>
<i>&gt; hand, am completely clueless when it comes to driver-writing. So, while I'm </i><br>
<i>&gt; willing to do as much as I'm able, I'd need some help in that department.</i><br>
I will gladly try to help, if you want to take the challenge, but you will<br>
need at least basic knowledge of electronics and how to wield a soldering iron<br>
if you want to monitor the parallel port in hardware or a solid knowledge<br>
of WinDoze drivers to do it on the software-side.<br>
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If this is not the case, you should try to find somebody who thinks (s)he can<br>
do it. The problem is, that you need to have the hardware handy to write a <br>
driver. I and David can probably fill your ears for some hours with stories<br>
about "blind-flight-driver-development" ... ;-)<br>
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