Thus spake Christina Johnsson (chjo@tripnet.se):

Hi all!

I'm thinking of bying a scanner. Does anyone have any special recommendations of what scanner works best with S.u.S.E. 5.3? The scanner should be "quite good", since I plan to scan photos and handmade drawings.

Thanks

Christina

I use a HP 3c scsi flatbed scanner here. I have used it with xvscan from www.tummy.com in the past. xvscan is like a part of xv or all of it but its shareware and you get scanning abilities. A cool alternative is to get SANE. SANE will fit into gimp and provide a scanning menu item in gimp for scanning suport. The 3c is rather dated; but ImO its a fine model and can be bought quite cheaply. Its served me well in NT and linux and OS/2. I think that you can integrate scanning support by using YAST. I have never done that and prefer to download and compile things myself. There is a SANE website out there but I just do not know it offhand. I have my scanner hooked to an Adaptec 2940uw, BTW. -- Michael Perry mperry@basin.com ------------------ - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

"Dana J. Laude" wrote:

Christina Johnsson wrote:

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Hi all!

I'm thinking of bying a scanner. Does anyone have any special recommendations of what scanner works best with S.u.S.E. 5.3? The scanner should be "quite good", since I plan to scan photos and handmade drawings.

Check out the scanners supported by SANE: <A HREF="http://www.mostang.com/sane/"><A HREF="http://www.mostang.com/sane/</A">http://www.mostang.com/sane/</A</A>> I've narrowed down my purchase to a Astra 1220S, but the sane site did recommend a better SCSI card. Best of luck!

I have a Astra 1220S and it is solidly built and works well with SANE. I'm particularly impressed with the Astra's "coil wrapped" scanbar connector, which is way better than those cheap flat plastic wire connectors currently sold in all those "bargain scanners". Get SCSI!!!! Forget parallel port scanners. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

"Dana J. Laude" wrote:

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I have a Astra 1220S and it is solidly built and works well with SANE. I'm particularly impressed with the Astra's "coil wrapped" scanbar connector, which is way better than those cheap flat plastic wire connectors currently sold in all those "bargain scanners".

Get SCSI!!!! Forget parallel port scanners.

Which SCSI card would you recommend? I'll eventually like to add a hard drive or two. And yes, the Astra 1220S sure is nice, especially for a price of $149 (US) from CDW. Hopefully my wife will take the constant hints and I'll get one for X-mas. ;-)

Dana

Well you don't need a superfast ultrawide scsi card for a scanner. :-) Do get a PCI, Busmastering, card if possible. A nice extra feature is a rom-bios, which allows you to boot from cd's like SuSe, but it isn't a nesescity. It would add around $20 to the price. And of course you would need a scsi cdrom drive. But think toward the future when you will want that scsi cdrom writer. If you had the rom-bios, you could boot from it. Or same if you picked up a scsi hard drive. I got a SIIG card at a discount. It runs good, except it needs the initio kernel patch everytime I do a kernel upgrade. It had a rom-bios, at a cheap price, but for simplicity I would go with a Advansys card. They are all supported by the kernels, no patches, no problems. One thing to watch for when buying the card, is what sort of external connector it provides. Most scanners use those cheaper db-25 cables, but most scsi cards now use a hdp-50 mini connector. So you will either need to get a card that has a 25 pin connector, or get a db25-to-hdp50 adaptor cable. I did see at CDW? a SIIG PCI scsi card, without rom-bios, and with a db25 external connector. It was only $29 I seem to remember. That wouldn't be bad. It would let you use your existing scanner cable, and let you have an internal scsi cdrom, or hard drive. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e