It works fine for me.
I have used kernel 2.2.15 and 2.4.0 test 2 with no problems.
I use his patched version of SANE.
-F
----- Original Message -----
From: <jgreer@ipopros.com>
To: <sane-devel@mostang.com>
Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 9:55 PM
Subject: Re: Nikon Coolscan / LS2000?
>
> I'm having the exact same problems with an LS30. I sent an email out to
> andreas.rick@free.fr, but go no response. I figure he's probably out on
> vacation and enjoying himself.
>
> Anyway, I've tried 1.0.2 patched to recognize the device, the
> patched version (sane-1.0.2_coolscan043.tgz) and a cvs checkout version,
> all without success.
>
> All three seem to be able to communicate with the scanner and they
> position the negative when you press the 'preview' or 'scan' buttons, but
> the scanfiles come out extremely tiny and in preview mode, the preview
> area remains white.
>
> I've also tried using the -T option to scanimage and it says something
> about an 'unexpected end of file'.
>
> I'd be interested to hear if anyone has had luck getting any newer
> coolscans to work with any version of SANE.
>
> --john
>
> On 7 Jul 2000 dave-mlist@bfnet.com wrote:
>
> > Red Hat 6.2, Kernel 2.2.14
> >
> > I have tried several ways to use SANE to scan with the Nikon LS2000,
> > and none of them have worked. I'm looking for some advice as to where
> > to go next. I have never tried this scanner with a windows machine.
> >
> > I tried to FTP the sane backend for the coolscan at
> > http://www.sema.be/coolscan/ but there doesn't appear to be any FTP
> > access.
> >
> > I tried the modified backend at
> > http://andreas.rick.free.fr/sane/coolscan.html and was actually able
> > to download sane-1.0.2_coolscan043.tgz. This compiled fine, but the
> > preview and scan buttons don't seem to do anything. I tried loading
> > the film both before and after hitting the buttons.
> >
> > I tried vuescan at http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html, and VueScan 5.9t53
> > for Linux. This appears to be more functional than SANE: at least the
> > abort and film eject buttons work fine. I was actually able to get a
> > sort of image from the scan, but it took a really long time, and it
> > did not look very clean. I was not able to save the image or control
> > which image on the negative to scan. This may be because of the trial
> > (unregistered) status of the software.
> >
> > Does anybody out there have an LS2000 working with SANE?
> >
> > Dave
> >
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