driver dev advice

Washu chan (washu@gothpunk.com)
Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:31:23 -0800 (PST)

Hi,

I have never written a device driver before and am thinking my unsupported
scanner might be a good place to start. The problem is the company that
made my scanner is probably out of business.

The company is Scanpaq, Inc.
It is a scanport parallel port TWAIN scanner. Will I be able to work
without specific hardware information about the scanner? Is TWAIN a
general purpose API?

If you think it is possible what is a good roadmap of resources to get
started. For instance I have the O'Rreilly Linux Device Driver book. Are
there good resources about writing drives for the parallel port and
scanners? Then I'll need to integrate with SANE, correct?

Thanks,
washu

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