primax: Getting docs from Primax
Subject:
RE: Getting docs from Primax
From:
Christian Ordig ####@####.####
Date:
14 Feb 2000 15:54:05 -0000
Message-Id: <XFMail.000214163730.chr.ordig@gmx.net>
On 14-Feb-00 C Hennessy wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have seen on freshmeat today an announcement from another group
> developing a driver for the Artec AS6E parallel port. However something
> quite interesting is the docs which were provided to them ( check tham
> out
> at : http://as6edriver.sourceforge.net/hacking.html ).
>
> Why will primax not make docs like this available ?
> Surely they should understand that if their competitors scanners are
> supported better under linux than the primax scanners then they will
> loose
> customers.
Well, don't know if they'll really LOOSE custumers, but they keep potential customers
from buying one of their scanners.
> Or if they are going to move completely to USB interfaces
> then the release of the docs for the parallel interface should not be
> a problem.
Well... perhaps' these aren't their plans...
> On a slightly different note : does anyone know how to catch the fact
> that
> the scanner button has been pressed ?
There is a flag (Bit in a register) in the ASIC registers, which is set,
when the button has been pressed.
Thomas told me to know more about which register this was...
in the E1/E3 ASIC this is Bit 1 in Register 12... (but the ASIC of the D300 isn't compatible
with the E1/E3 ASIC...)
cu.
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