easiest thing to do is to open the scanner and get logos and numbers off the larger chips. second easiest is to take a trace under windows using benoit's usbsnoop, put it on the web, and post a link on this list. if you are lucky, someone here might recognize the protocol.
allan On 1/10/08, Ben F-W <sane at flemingwilliams.co.uk> wrote: > Hello all! I'd like some advice on whether this scanner is usable under > Linux. > > My sister brought the Heidelberg AG Linoscan 1200 back when her work > chucked it out, and I thought I'd try and get it running under Linux > (Ubuntu 7.10). It connects via USB, and lsusb gives: > Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0a18:1030 Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG > > However, xsane claims there are no devices available, and Google search > hasn't turned up any evidence it works with sane. The only relevant > links I can find are > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2007-May/019180.html, > where a user offered the scanner on this list for testing, and > www.silverfast.com/forum/possible-mac-os-x-solution-for-linotype-scanners-t1265.html, > > where someone explains that the "LinoScan 1200 is a special problem > under OS-X which is related to the USB communication chip". Don't know > if that's relevant here or not. > > Can the Linoscan 1200 be used, or should I be looking for an > alternative? I've exhausted my few hardware-investigating abilities, but > would be happy to try suggestions. > > Thank you in advance, > > Ben > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org > -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
