> look at what's supported for the SANE drivers in CVS

<peeve>

I've been scanning the Techbargains feed for scanners for a 
few years now and, without exception, there are -no- 
current cheap-after-rebate scanners that appear on the SANE 
list. It's not that they've been tested & found wanting, 
they don't even appear on the list.

I'd get an HP scanner, but HP's whoop-dee-doo HPLIP drivers 
are only for their scanner-printer-fax-copier units, not 
standalone scanners. I already have an HP7400C that "sorta" 
works with the Avision driver, which means it only runs off 
the end of the carriage once a week and wedges the entire 
system a few times a month... evidently there's something 
kaflooie that jams the kernel solidly enough to require a 
power-off reboot. No, I can't SSH in, it's dead.

I would -looove- to get a good new scanner (ideally, with a 
transparency adapter), but the set of "works completely" 
scanners seems to not include anything that's actually 
available where I'm looking.

Maybe I must just pay the "Linux tax" and buy something at 
full retail, eh?

</peeve>

-- 
Ed
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