[NTLUG:Discuss] SANE XSANE - don't want to reinvent wheel

[Fred James]

No, actually it was purchased to work with a MS system, and it does.
I just thought about trying it on Linux as an after thought.
The UMax is so old (pre Win98 - serial I/O, for sure) that I thought 
surely no problem (umax and umaxpp are both in /usr/bin/xsane)

So what you are saying is there isn't any "special set up", if xsane 
doesn't come up with the device then it isn't supported?   Is that it?
Understand, I haven't done any kind of set up - nada.


Chris Cox wrote:

> Fred James wrote:
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>> So far "xsane: no devices available" is what I get from "xsane", and 
>> Gimp doesn't seem to see it either.
>> There are actually 2 - one is an old UMax Astra 600P on parallel 
>> port, and the other is a HP Officejet d155xi on Ethernet.
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> I do not believe either of these is supported under Linux currently.
> UMax will not release the specs for the 600P (and other models
> as well) and the Officejet drivers.... MIGHT be available, but
> I wouldn't count it... unless HP has come forward with some
> drivers (I could be wrong on this one.. .might work with
> the sane-hp driver... I never seen one work with ethernet).
>
> http://www.buzzard.org.uk/jonathan/scanners.html
> http://panda.mostang.com/sane/sane-backends.html
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> Scanners is definitely an area where careful selection must be
> done to ensure Linux compatibility.  I love my Epson 2450 (USB)...
> other Epsons work well too.  The links above will show many
> more scanners that work well with Linux.
>
> In the future, if it doesn't work with Linux... don't buy it :-)
> (I realize your purchases were probably made before you
> decided to try Linux)
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>> Bobby Wrenn wrote:
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>>> On Tuesday 20 August 2002 10:59 am, you wrote:
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>>>> Red Hat Linux 7.2
>>>> Anyone have any experience, or guidance, to share on setting up 
>>>> scanning
>>>> on Linux in general, or RH 7.2 in particular?
>>>> Thank you in advance for anything you can offer.
>>>>     
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>>>
>>> In general on RH 7.2 run xsane and watch it find your scanner. Or 
>>> launch gimp and let it aquire the scanner.
>>>
>>> HTH
>>> Bobby
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