On Thursday 12 September 2002 12:25 pm, you wrote: > et wrote: > >On Thursday 12 September 2002 09:28 am, you wrote: > >>et wrote: > >>>On Thursday 12 September 2002 09:13 am, you wrote: > >>>>et wrote: > >>>>>On Tuesday 10 September 2002 06:54 pm, you wrote: > >>>>>>On Tuesday 10 September 2002 04:28 pm, et wrote: > >>>>>>>>>I have LM 8.2 on an Athlon XP 1600+ and 512 megs ram . I have a > >>>>>>>>>HP 4300c scanner that I am using as USB and I wonder if anyone > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>hmmmm, I would bet there is something like how I get my acer 320 > >>>>>> > >>>>>>Well, those weren't supported back when I had one. I'd check sane's > >>>>>>site and see if that has changed. My solution was to get an epson > >>>>>>1200U and have had no scanner issues since. :) > >>>>>>-s > >>>>> > >>>>>I hope Marcia will let us know if any of these work. > >>>>>I could never get this beast to work until 8.2. devfs has come a ways > >>>>>quickly > >>>> > >>>>On a related note, is it possible to set up sane for USB or parallel > >>>>ports? It will only detect SCSI scanners. > >>>> > >>>>Sir Robin > >>> > >>>my (cheep as hell, $38.00 US, 2 years ago) USB Acer 320 rns with only a > >>>couple of modifactions to the *.conf file, changing "# /dev/usbscanner" > >>>to "/dev/usb/scanner" and adding an "absolute path" to the binary that > >>>came with the scanner. this makes X-sane work anyway. > >>> > >>> > >>>------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >>> > >>>Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >>>Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > >> > >>Thanks for the input. I understand that mine will probably work with the > >>niash patch. > >> > >>However, if you got yours to work with some configurations that sounds > >>like something I would like to try. I did change the name of my scanner > >>in the conf. file but how and where do you put the absolute path the the > >>binary that came with the scanner. I am not sure what you mean here as > >>far as the binary that came with the scanner. Could you explain all of > >>this in detail. I am quite the newbie with things like this. Thanks alot > >>for your help. > >> > >>Sincerely, > >> > >>Marcia > > > >I am not saying that it will get _YOURS_ running, it was what I had to do > > for mine. I got this info about MY USB scanner off of a search about USB > > Configuring The Acer scanners on Mandrakeuser.org some time ago (like > > when 8.2 was a month old) here is the main part of what it said; > > > >ScannerDrake detects the scanner correctly and says : "congratulation, > > your scanner is configured successfully" or something like that. > > But the scanner isn't working. Why? Most likely you have failed to > > install the correct firmware file and the path to that file to > >/etc/sane(.d)/snapscan.conf (replacing the old > >'/the/path/to/your/firmware/file'). > > > > This firmware file is located in the windows driver package. Currently > > it's a .zip file, extract it and locate the firmware file in directory > > called *.bin or *.so, the firmware file for the Acer 620u/640u is called > > 'u64v119.bin' or 'u64v120.bin'. > > > > hope this will help somebody. > >I DON"T know and don't believe that an HP scanner would be detected the > > same. > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > Thank you very much for your help. I will try something like this, > however, I do not think it will work only because I believe your scanner > is supported and mine is not. I think my best recourse here is to apply > the niash patch to the sane source package. I am a complete newbie with > this sort of thing so doyou or anyone have any suggestions how I to > apply a patch to a source file? Any help here will be greatly > appreciated. When I get this going I will let all of you know how > exactly I did it. > > Thank you, > > Marcia no, my scanner is not on the list of supported devices, but was able to work this way...
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