His scanner wouldn’t work on Linux — so he let Claude study the Windows driver
The New Stack Amanda Caswell ● Covered by 2 sources
Christian Schaller got a Plustek OpticFilm 8200i scanner and a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon camera working on Linux by using Claude Code to compare Linux driver behavior against Windows reference runs. The scanner’s full-resolution scan finished in 34.6 seconds with his driver versus 54.4 seconds with the upstream SANE version at 3,600 dpi. He released the method as an open-source hw-harness toolkit and plans to switch to upstream SANE instead of maintaining a competing driver.
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Christian Schaller, a Red Hat engineering director and longtime GNOME and Fedora contributor, had a box of old family negatives The post His scanner wouldn’t work on Linux — so he let Claude study the Windows driver appeared first on The New Stack.
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