[email protected] wrote: > > Could you tell me a blend of scanner that you're mathematically > absolutely sure and can swear to all that you most care in the whole > holy universe that works without any problems under linux???
I'm afraid nobody will ever swear that you don't get problems installing a scanner for even the most closely reviewed and most advanced and award awinning and generally best Sane backend and frontend (whichever they might be...) Firstly, have a look into the GNU General Public License. For good reasons, it excludes any warranty. And I'm sure no Sane developer (or, more generally, any halfway honest developer) would claim that his/her code can mature to a state where it is absolutely bug free. Have a look into the source code. You'll find countless DBG statements, which can give us developers a clue what might go wrong, if somebody encounters an error. But if you flick through the Sane mailing list, I hope you'll see that we try to fix any errors the best way we can. Secondly, I guess you mean "without any problems" that you buy a scanner, install e.g. a SCSI adapter if necessary, connect the scanner, install Sane, switch on your machine and start to make scans. Especially the successful installation of a SCSI scanner involves some details that are completely beyond the responsibility and control of the developers, like proper cabling and bus termination. This is completely your, the user's, responsibility. (BTW, one of the first Apple G3 models had fancy design detail: To connect the internal SCSI hard disc, they used an ordinary Adaptec 2940 -- with one modification, aside from a Mac compatible BIOS: They covered the adapter's connector for external devices with a small sheet of plastic or cardboard, so that no user may be tempted to connect any external device to the 2940. For external devices, they installed a second SCSI adapter that I have seen working with suprisingly weird cabling and different variants of wrong termination.) Moreover, there are a few details that you need to be aware of: Even if the hardware installation is successful, you might need to configure some other things, like device file permissions. This is too something, where we can't give a warranty that you do it properly ;) If you want to be sure to buy a usable scanner, you can either ask your dealer to install everything, including the necessary software, or make sure that you can return the scanner in the case that it is not useful for you. Abel
