Excellent. I look forward to hearing more. (Do I have to be using
patch-4?) I have an hp scanjet 5300c, which is not quite yet supported
under linux. (It has parallel and usb interface.) I tried to set up the
parralell port stuff, but haven't yet got it working. Thanks for the
scoop
Michael
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Paulo Tribolet Abreu wrote:
> Michael L Torrie wrote:
> >
> > Does it work at all? How would I go about enabling raw ecp parallel port
> > support? I know I have to do it through the winsetup program, but when I
> > run as root, the dialog box for changing the access permissions and things
> > doesn't display fonts correctly, and is unreadable. (What might cause
> > that?) I have a scanner that I'd like to get running in win4lin, if I
> > could, via the parallel port.
> >
> > thanks,
> > Michael
> >
>
> I have done that and it works! In fact, the scanner is my main reason to
> install win4lin in the first place! First my specs: kernel 2.2.12 and
> Win98; scanner is a Mustek ScanExpress 12000P.
>
> I have been checking SANE regularly (www.mostang.com/sane) - that's the
> Linux improved equivalent of Twain - but most pp scanners are not
> supported because of lack of specs.
>
> Running winsetup as root ran fine. I added a parallel port interface and
> then I used it as a normal user. That was it. You'll have to wait some
> hours until I can say some more specs on this, as this machine doesn't
> have win4lin. But the scanner worked and the printer too, under win4lin,
> and then the printer worked under linux again... it was great!
>
> Paulo
>
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