Re: Want to give wife scanner for anniversary - suggestions?

Glenn (glenn@meaning.com)
Sun, 9 Aug 1998 18:42:58 -0500 (CDT)

Dan Birchall writes:
^
^I'd like to set a color flatbed scanner up on my wife's Linux
^box as a surprise anniversary gift, but I'm not entirely sure
^where to begin. Her system as it now stands is:
^
^1. Install a SCSI adaptor, pick up a SCSI scanner that SANE
^ likes, and hope for the best. My concern here is that the
^ PC has never had any SCSI adaptors, and Linux was told
^ this when I installed it, so I'm not sure it'd even notice.
^ If I did this, would I have to reinstall the kernel,
^ reinstall Linux, download GCC and rebuild the kernel, add
^ a module for SCSI, or what? :)
^

I don't know about PPort scanners, but here's what I've
learned with my microtek scanners (www.microteck.com, the E3 is a
good SCSI flatbed scanner, which I've been running under WinNT
for 6-8 months without any problems. It's around $150 now.)
It comes with the Adaptec 1502 SCSI-1 Card. The card is slow,
very dumb (it can't be autoprobed), short, ugly, and I once
saw one with a fried SMD. HAving said all that, it does work
rather well. :)
I haven't gotten around to configuring the E3, but I've
been using the Microtek 35t+ slide scanner with xscanner (&GIMP).
There are still bugs in the driver (like the exposure control
doesn't work.) I'm planning on trying ViviData's scanshop for
linux ($49 at www.vividata.com) to see if it's any better.
[Sorry to jump the SANE ship, but being a photographer, I need
good scanner support, and I need it now.]
Getting back to the installation, once I figured out
how to get the 1502 card to work (I can dig up the URL with
the instructions if anyone is interested. Thanks to ??? on
the SANE-DEVEL list for passing that on to me.), I edited
/etc/sane/microtek.conf, adding "scsi Microtek" and the 35t+
showed up the next time I opened xscanimage. (For some reason,
the E3 doesn't identify itself as a microtek scanner when it's
probed, just "scanner".)
I scanned the image, saved it, opened it in GIMP
and printed it out. It seemed to work fine. (You can also
scan directly into GIMP.)
I hope some of this rambling has helped, I'm away
from my home PC right now, so I may have messed up a detail
or two. C'est l'vive!

glenn

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