This project kind of got re-directed. My wife wants to get a multi-function unit with scanner, printer and fax. So now we are looking for such that is also linux usable. She did find a neat bit of info -- HP is helping a sourceforge project to produce drivers for their products. But is appears that right now there is just one model that is fully supported. (Well, almost; they won't do fax on an open system) Anyway the model is Officejet 9100. It seems to be "hot" right now so we're going to wait and hope prices come down. This was apparently introduced first in the German market and I'm guessing they wanted to sell some to the city of Munich.
I never did get the Epson driver to fully compile, although it looked like all the backends were done. All the fixes I made involved finding includes. I got frustrated when I realized that things were not in the right place even for files not a part of the Epson code. Specifically, these are gtk includes. For example gtk.h includes glib.h (#include <glib.h>) but Debian installed it in /include/glib-1.2/glib.h One of these I could deal with but there seemed to be an ongoing stream of them. On top of which there seemed to be no real reason that a frontend should be included with this code. Richard On Sat July 2 2005 18:22, Richard Mancusi wrote: > When upgrading my wife from M$ to Linux (SuSE 9.2) I found it > it necessary to dump her HP scanner and replace it with an Epson > Perfection 4870 Photo. I suggest VueScan Software. > > Works great - she is happy. This is one of the very few "moving" > costs we incurred. > > Rich > > On 7/2/05, Richard Harke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm trying to set up a scanner to scan in a bunch of documents. > > First shot was hook up my wifes scanner but it is not supported. > > So I got into reading the lists of supported scanners and hunting > > for them on the internet. The ones I can find for sale don't seem > > to be listed or are listed as not supported by SANE. > > Then I found a site that suggested getting an Epson, saying that they > > do support Linux. I went to their web page and got a list of models > > and then downloaded the tar ball. But when I tried to build it, I got > > tons of errors. They also supply an RPM but I wonder if I can use it. > > I'm running Debian and have a 2.6 kernel. They list Redhat and SuSE > > as the distros supported. > > > > Does anyone on this list have any suggestions? > > > > Richard Harke > > _______________________________________________ > > vox-tech mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
