On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 04:11, Patrick wrote:

Wolfi,

Hi Patrick, nice to hear from you!

I have the Epson Perfection 1650 Photo scanner, which indeed is the previous model to yours. I have had no problems with it and SuSE has worked with it nicely since the first hookup in 7.3. 8.0 actually auto configured it and the only addition I have made is getting Epson's own scanning software, called ImageScan. It also uses sane for the backend, but the program gives you the same interface as say their Windows version would. Very nice to work with and knows when it has regular scans, negatives or positives. I don't know if their site is back up yet to download the program, but I have it and can send it if you like. I don't know if this last version I got will work ok with your 1660, but I suspect it will.

All right, maybe I'll try this program from Epson, but ... there is still sane as a backend, as you said. The problem is, I have to configure the scanner manually. Then it does work, it must be declared as a 1650 Photo. The 'through-light' option is present immediately. As I've just seen on the list, I can easily turn off the HW scan on boot, which would uninstall the scanner. All right so far. But there is still something wrong, and that's the freezes which appear when I changed the scanner configuration. So I assume, that there is something nok with just taking the 1650 setup for a 1660. My suspicion is, that the next version of sane (hopefully) will cover the 1660. So, question, is there a SuSE maintainer in the 'people' subdirectory on the download sites who offers a 'bleeding edge' rpm or should one rather dig for source? I already found 1.0.9-pre1

Are you USB 1 or 2 with that model? I think that is still USB 1 just like mine.

USB 2.0, but the box is almost three years old, so they will be working on the 1.x level, which should not be the problem. The scanner is damn fast anyway ... No way to compare to the older SCSI's which I know :-))

Just make sure your USB is working and initializing good in your startup for it. My comes in very well and I have had no problems with hwscan causing problems. I wonder what features they changed in the model upgrade?

They made it a couple of Euros cheaper:-) 220.- instead of 250.- This difference went bust almost completely for the parcel service:-))

I think you will be pleased with it though.

Once it will run flawlessly, which I am convinced we will make happen:-) I would like to scan some of my myriads of slides, which takes time anyway, so maybe this won't be far earlier than my retirement (2033) *haha*

Patrick

Cheers ... Wolfi ============================================= mailto:wolfi_z@gmx.net