Bauke Jan Douma wrote: > I could also send you a pre-compiled binary libsane-snapscan.so, > for an i386 architecture, but if I were you I'd never trust any > binaries from just any joe random. Me neither!!
> In my case you can make an exception though ;-) I have total confidence > Seriously, I'd be perfectly willing to do that. Seriously I'd be extremely grateful. I'm using Kubuntu Hoary on i386. I've cab-extracted esfw52.bin, put it /usr/bin and set firmware in snapscan.conf to point to it, which I understand is the only other requirement. I had a look at libsane-extras in Breezy and it includes epkowa in the description but I'm unsure whether this will run the 3490. > > The scanner works like a charm for me here -- I needed it badly > to scan ca. 3000 newspaper clippings. I'm simply stunned by the > quality compared to my old Canoscan 630P, which itself I always > found to be quite good already. First time user - it's the tpu I'm after. Several hundred slides which I'd like to get onto cd, and a darling wife(!) who keeps asking "when?". > > Regards, > > bjd > Thanks Jim
