Re: USB scanner support ?

Greg Smith (greg@electricrain.com)
Fri, 21 May 1999 10:03:50 -0700


On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 08:46:25AM +0200, Steffen Grunewald wrote:
>
> what's the actual state of USB support ? I'm looking for support
> for an AGFA USB scanner, in particular. May I help testing ?

They're not yet supported. Check out www.linux-usb.org as well as
the mailing list for more info or to help out. Many/Most USB scanners
use some form of proprietary compression when transferring the data to
the computer. This will likely be the most difficult part.

-G

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