Re: Linux Support for Current Microtek Scanners

From: Oliver Neukum (Oliver.Neukum@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Sat Nov 18 2000 - 11:51:55 PST

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    > You're saying "newer scanners". I guess you mean scsi2 scanners. It
    > would be nice though if you could do something for the microtek
    > (scsi1) backend. There is no maintainer anymore for the
    > microtek backend, the maintainer Matto Marjanovic disappeared last
    > year.

    I am afraid, this was a reference only to scanners currently in production.

    > My Microtek Pagewiz (sheetfed) worked with a modified 0.10 backend on
    > sane 1.0.1, but i never got it to work (i/o error) with the 0.12
    > backend on sane 1.0.2. I'm using a microtek2 scanner now, but a lot
    > of people use microtek(1) scanners, and report problems with them.
    > I'm sure support on these scanners will be a good thing.

    Sure.

    > end-users has been close to zero. I can't really tell about support
    > for developers, but i heard about people who requested for
    > documentation and only got old documentation.
    > Your support could change this, and benefit us all.

    They were helpful, but only up to a point. Some request they answered with
    megabytes of documentation. Other requests were met with an outright "no".

            Regards
                    Oliver Neukum

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