On Wednesday 26 September 2001 10:56 pm, Joe Zien wrote:

I want to purchase a flatbed scanner to use with SuSE 7.1. Can you use the serial port with the scanner? Has anyone installed a particular model successfully? Any other info will be welcomed.

jozien

The SuSE Hardware Database has 176 scanners listed: (this link will no doubt get butchered) http://hardwaredb.suse.de/connectuserServer.php?manufactor=&device=&LANG=en_UK&offset=0&typ=userSearch&basesub=268%3A-1 And I doubt you'd want a serial port scanner ;-)

Hi, I have a Dexxa 4800 scanner that uses the LPT (parallel) port... ...but I have never heard of one that uses a serial port. I managed to get it working in SuSE 7.2 but not SuSE 7.1 or SuSE 7.0. Regards Q On Thu 27 Sep 01 08:35, Bryan Tyson wrote:

On Wednesday 26 September 2001 22:56, Jozien wrote:

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I want to purchase a flatbed scanner to use with SuSE 7.1. Can you use the serial port with the scanner? Has anyone installed a particular model successfully?

I have not heard of scanners that use the serial port.

I can enthusiastically recommend the Epson 1200U, a USB scanner that works well with SuSE and SANE, and gives great scans. This scanner is easy to get working in SuSE. As a general rule, Epsons are known for being easy to set up in Linux. You should still check the SANE page to make sure you have a model that is known to work.

It was very easy for me with SuSE 7.2. I noticed there are some minor issues to be aware of in 7.1, discussed here:

http://www.freecolormanagement.com/sane/suse71.html

Some other useful documents:

http://www.mostang.com/sane/

http://www.freecolormanagement.com/sane/index.html (Epson backend info)

http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/tami_usbscanner.html

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