[dundee] Website

[Andrew Clayton]

On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:28:07 +0000 (GMT), David Thornton Snr wrote:

> Hi Simon,
> I quite agree with you having looked at the site it could do with
> some content. Who looks after the site? I can give quite afew hours
> to it as i work in the afternoons so most, if not all my mornings are
> free, apart from taking the dog for a walk! I'm looking at developing
> a scanner database program for linux that hopefully would be a point
> & click. To explain i have a epson dx6000 mfp and to get the scanner
> working was not hard but time consuming, lsusb, then epson.conf, then
> 45-libsane.rules, etc. I'm hopeing to make it easier, more simple to
> attach a scanner. I have contacted some of the major manafacturers
> hopeing that they will be able to supply me with the details  of the
> SYSFS idVendor & idProduct (model). Epson idVendor is 04b8 and my
> idPrinter 082f. I can then start building a database so users can
> click on the make and model this then creates the file to paste into
> the .rules file.  

Even better would be to send patches to the relevant upstream projects,
so users get it working out of the box.

Upstream, upstream, upstream...


Andrew