Pl., What was the price?
bye prosun
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 18:55:09 -0800 (PST), samkupar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
i have hp-psc1210 on usb. the printer as well as scanner work properly in linux.just for info...try out QuiteInsane for scanning
regards samkupar
using linux has improved a part of me,for sure.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 17:57:52 -0500 To: [email protected] Subject: [ilug-cal] Woes in purchasing a scanner and bad header karma
Hi all,
Murphy's Law says it the best! all the can go wrong will go wrong! Same
happened
with my scanner purchase. The friendly neighbourhood h/w vendors have become
rather audacious, several blithely told me the following "haan, haan, linux
mein
kaam karega! USB scanner hain na!". One even looked at me accusingly when I
countered his claim about HP ScanJet 2400 being Linux compatible and asked me to
check up the HP website. ;-)
I shot off an one-liner to HP India support asking about Scanners supported
under linux by HP. The reply was prompt (next business day), I was asked to look
at www.hp.com/go/linux/ for products supported on Linux. The nice lady who wrote
this epistle, hoped that the webpage would solve my "problem". The page did list
one or two HP MFDs "supported" by the hpoj driver. Well, tough luck! :-(
I found out that among the scanners regularly sold at Kolkata, the Canon
CanoScan LiDE 20 and LiDE 30 had complete SANE backend support (plustek). So, I
decided to purchase LiDE 30 only to be informed by my vendor that Canon has
withdrawn support on the product because too many models had to be replaced due
to faulty motor. I could buy it, but I shouldn't expect any warranty support.
Hmmm... so finally I had little choice but to go for the ScanJet 2400. The
(currently under development) Genesys backend is supposed to support (once its
finished) the GL646_HP chipset which powers this scanner. After bringing the
scanner home I spent some quality "CVS time". Unfortunately, the genesys
backend
code simply refused to compile, spewing up a list of compiler warning and error
statements. Bad header karma!
Finally, I grabbed a copy of VMWare 5.0 (after signing up as a beta tester),
installed Win XP Pro as the guest OS. Installed the scanning software, and
finally the moment of truth arrived... will USB 2.0 work in VMWare? Well, it
did
with almost no noticeable decay in performance. Voila!
Finally a drag-n-drop later using WinSCP, I had the scans transfered to my $HOME
in Linux. Now that I knew that my scanner worked OK, its now time to snoop at
USB transactions and try to figure out exactly what the heck the scanner is
talking to the comp. Nice way to spend lazy weekends! ;-)
cheers, -indra.
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