Steve Sheriff wrote:
Hi everyone.
Anyone got a Umax scanner running under 6.3? All SANE stuff points us in this direction except that the docs. tell us that we have to get a proper Adaptec card to run it. Here in Spain that is ridiculously expensive. Maybe HP or Epson which we can get more or less on demand? Wait for USB?
Any advice much appreciated.
Best wishes from Steve & Clara at FeF, Spain.
Hi Steve, visit sanes website for supported scanners. http://www.mostang.com/sane/sane-support and see wether your scanner is listed. It should work with *any* supported scsi card. You need to load the module with "modprobe whatevermodule". I use a "cheap" tekram card without boot ability (about US$ 50). There are some tools mentioned -either in the SuSE manual or in the sane docs- that can be used to (re)scan / test the scsi bus and find the scanner. I had the problem that when I started xscanimage it promted me with "pnm:0 or pnm:1" to choose from. "/dev/scanner" was missing. This was due to the unsupported scanner I had. ;-(. After I swapped my scanner with a friend "/dev/scanner" appeared. But it's dead slow on high res color scans, I tried to recompile my kernel, but failed to find some proper settings for both my SCSI and ISDN card. Nothing to bother with, since 6.4 is just round the corner... -- =========================================== __ _ Juergen Braukmann juergen.braukmann@gmx.de| -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Tel: 0201-743648 dk4jb@db0qs.#nrw.deu.eu | /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ===========================================_\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/