On Thu, 09 Dec 1999, Ian Collier wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 07, 1995 at 12:38:46AM +0000, Declan Moriarty wrote:
> ^^^^
> Your clock seems to be broken...
>
> > Where could I find out how to set these things up? My distribution
> > (SuSE 6.1) has "Scanner" support, but these have to be SCSI.. I gather I will
> > need a parallel port kernel support.
>
> I'd be surprised if you can get parallel scanners working under Linux
> as manufacturers aren't exactly enthusiastic about publishing the specs
> of their parallel interfaces.
>
> Hey, I have a SCSI scanner and I doubt I'll ever be able to escape the
> curse of Win95 with that.
You would with SuSE. Check out SANE. Scanner Access Now Easy. There's probably an
rpm on the
suse site. I got Suse's snapshot in April, and sane was on
metalab.unc.edu/apps/graphics/capture/sane-1.00.tar.gz . Try there. It treats
the thing as a GENERIC SCSI device - whatever that is. You'd be better off with
SCSI (That stands for "System Can't See It) than IDE, because with IDE the
Software Can't See it, and the system doesn't want to know. If you get the
package I can feed you from suse's book on it. There's another reply telling me
how it's done for imy scanner. I read it. It sounds like IDE over SCSI over
pcmcia over the parallel port, and inventing a few config files linux hasn't
thought of yet to fool it that it's not up to date. It also appears you have to
hack the config files (Kick it to see will it start :). I'll read it again
later :)
Are you anywhere near Ireland? Then when you give up with SCSI, and I
give up with IDE, we could swap;-)
Regards,
Declan Moriarty
