On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 13:43, you wrote:
> On Monday 24 September 2001 21:10, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> > I have heard rumors that thers is a better alternative to sane. I may go
> > searching for that now.
>
> Of which I know nothing. However, the impression I get out of usb is that
> they (usb) are attempting to short circuit sane by using V4L and other
> drivers. The usb camera and scanner detection is quite good, they have
> built up a very reasonable api against these devices, but I don't know of
> any front end to them other than V4l. Reading the scanner detection usb
> source code (name of which escapes me), serious thought has gone into
> providing a one shoe fits all, header file. This is promising.
>
> These are just my ramblings, anyone needing a scanner to work now, today,
> on Linux, must use Sane and must (try) and use a scsi type. I don't want to
> mislead anyone into thinking there's anything else out there.
Didn't you get xawtv working too Mike? I have it but am getting coloured bars
or black snowyscreen on my xawtv screen, can get 1x channel only if I use your
-switches- but cannot get it to scan channels.
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