Basil Chupin wrote:
Tom Emerson wrote:
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On Friday 06 June 2003 10:56 pm, Basil Chupin wrote:
[various people commented]
Canon does not want to work with linux developers to enable them to make good drivers.
And not just for printers. For scanners it is even worse.
I made the mistake of buying a Canon scanner (which is quite good under <shudder> you-know-what) for which there is no Linux driver.
That wouldn't have happened to been a Lide 20/30, now would it? I made "the same mistake" [in asking for said canon scanner for christmas] and sure enough, knocking on Canon's support door got a cold-shoulder response.
HOWEVER, I'm VERY happy to report that with 8.2 of SuSE, the canon is AUTOMATICALLY DETECTED and really does work [and the "handwriting recognition" program got one letter in twenty correct !]
[I just checked -- the driver it uses is the canon N1240u/lide30]
No, it was not the one you mention above. It is the D1230U that I have and it is not recognised by SuSE at all.
In response to what I wrote above I received a private message from a person who does not participate in this forum but asked me to post the reply because it may be of interest to others. Here it is: QUOTE Hi Basil, I'm not in the SLE list so perhaps you can post this as it might be useful. I suspect it is not being recognized by the kernel usb driver. This is a snip from the kernel source "/usr/src/linux/drivers/usb/scanner,h" : { USB_DEVICE(0x04a9, 0x2207) }, /* CanoScan N1220U */ { USB_DEVICE(0x04a9, 0x2208) }, /* CanoScan D660U */ { USB_DEVICE(0x04a9, 0x220b) }, /* CanoScan D646U */ { USB_DEVICE(0x04a9, 0x220c) }, /* CanoScan D1250U2 */ { USB_DEVICE(0x04a9, 0x220d) }, /* CanoScan N670U/N676U/LIDE 20 */ { USB_DEVICE(0x04a9, 0x220e) }, /* CanoScan N1240U/LIDE 30 */. So, I think to get it working you need to do 2 things : a) Get the ID for the scanner b) Insert tjhis ID into the above table, generate kernel, boot from new kernel. To get (a) , it should be enough to plug in the scanner and look at the tail end of "/var/log/messages" Much luck ! Margit UNQUOTE All I have to do is to figure out on how to recompile my Athlon-orientated kernel which, so far, has resisted all attempts at being recompiled. (Ah, just had a thought: I wonder if I would have better success if I tried recompiling it under Windows?!) -- Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. Pablo Picasso