Option (a) sounds like fun to me! I'll take a screwdriver to it in the next couple of days and report back. Thanks!
m. allan noah wrote: > 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 >>
