primax: Thread: Primax, Genius, And something like that.

  Hello to all primax testers, owners, coders, and others (like me :+).
  
  In these days, I get in my work a scanner, to repair it (i'm work
with a
computers parts reseller), a Genius ColorPage Life-Pro, and, of course,
I
repaired it, but the scanner was, in a beggining, send back because my
company never sold it... well, it is now in my hands...

  Now I want to use it under the great Linux. Looking, Watching,
Searching
the Internet for those drivers, I learn that scanner was made by Umax
(it
has a Umax chin inside, and when I asked the Genius guys for some
specs,
them say the same thing), and it have the same
decoder/driver/somestrangechip
that the primax have (looking in the source code of the primax_scan.c
file),
the LM9811CCV, but I can't get it to work...

  There is something I get when I try to see whathehell is doing the
scanner/driver/parport/epp/etc. The file I have attached is a ... "dump
:+)
of the things I have did. Both in debug level 8 and 16 (the -v16 files
are
about 5mb, look the compression... :+).

  If someone known if the wakeup is wrong for the genius scanners, or
if the
Shuttle EP1284-01 (another significant chip inside) is really a
EPP-to-SCSI 
ASIC, or something, then tell me I was in the wrong way, or if someone
get
any Genius flatbed scanner of the ColorPage series to work, please tell
me
how did it.
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On 20-Jan-00 The Paya El Ateneo wrote:
>   Hello to all primax testers, owners, coders, and others (like me :+).
>   
>   In these days, I get in my work a scanner, to repair it (i'm work
> with a
> computers parts reseller), a Genius ColorPage Life-Pro, and, of course,
> I
> repaired it, but the scanner was, in a beggining, send back because my
> company never sold it... well, it is now in my hands...
> 
>   Now I want to use it under the great Linux. Looking, Watching,
> Searching
> the Internet for those drivers, I learn that scanner was made by Umax
> (it
> has a Umax chin inside, and when I asked the Genius guys for some
> specs,
> them say the same thing), and it have the same
> decoder/driver/somestrangechip
> that the primax have (looking in the source code of the primax_scan.c
> file),
> the LM9811CCV, but I can't get it to work...
Well... I'd say it'd be better to go for a Umax driver... the LM9811 is simply
the ADC, but to give any commands to the ADC you have to pass the central ASIC.
As this thing is made by Umax in your scanner your chances will be much higher to
make it scan something when trying the Umax drivers available.
 
>   There is something I get when I try to see whathehell is doing the
> scanner/driver/parport/epp/etc. The file I have attached is a ... "dump
>:+)
> of the things I have did. Both in debug level 8 and 16 (the -v16 files
> are
> about 5mb, look the compression... :+).
> 
>   If someone known if the wakeup is wrong for the genius scanners, or
> if the
> Shuttle EP1284-01 (another significant chip inside) is really a
> EPP-to-SCSI 
hmmm... EPP-to-SCSI ... why?
> ASIC, or something, then tell me I was in the wrong way, or if someone
> get
> any Genius flatbed scanner of the ColorPage series to work, please tell
> me
> how did it.
Well, the only known ColorPage scanner by Genius, which is known to work with the driver is 
the Genius Colopage Vivid+ ...

Good luck.

btw. I've looked thru the attached files (these which I was able to unpack;-) and saw that your
scanner wasn't recognized by the driver... That's an hint for another ASIC used...


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