On Tuesday 04 February 2003 09:55 am, Buchan Milne wrote:
> et wrote:
> > <snip>
> >
> >>But the question is, can one set up such a scanner with scannerdrake
> >>without having to edit the /etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf manually to enter
> >>the firmware path? Ideally, scannerdrake would prompt for the user to
> >>locate the firmware file on the driver CD.
> >>
> >>I have Prise 640U.
> >
> > well it seems to me this is more of a sane / xsane thing than a problem
> > in Mandrake,
>
> Then why have scannerdrake at all?? I also don't see how sane/xsane can
> fix this without a configuration to use the scanner firmware? Or do you
> mean sane/xsane should write firmware for all scanners????
>
> and it also seems to me that very few folks are going to "know" or
>
> > to "intuit" the arcane number schemes that are used for the different
> > firmware.
>
> But support would be much easier, simply tell the user which firmware
> file to use ...
>
> At present the user has to
> 1)Guess that they need to configure the firmware
> 2)Guess which file to edit
> 3)Guess which firmware to use
>
> Scannerdrake support for firmware would reduce the number of guesses to 1.
>
> Buchan
yep, I see your point..... at least asking about the firmware would be better
than just "your stuff don't play".
