I just sent a message indicating I had added a HP PSC 500 printer to my
linux box last evening. It's an 'all-in-one' unit which prints, scans
and copies. It's being discontinued and I got a good deal. Works well on
the windoze side of the house.
I'd like to use the scanner under linux. I know nothing about getting
started. I did look at the Mandrake site on supported hardware and got
passed to the sourceforge site where I see HP is providing something
called 'CVS'.
Dennis's note mentions SANE and xscanimage.
Could someone point me to page 1 of the 'Scanner How To' so I can begin
to tackle this one? Do I have software on the LM 8.0 2-disk distro that
will do this? Need SANE? CVS?
(I'm a real newbie but learning quickly thanks to this list.)
TIA.
Terry Smith
Woods Hole, MA
On 30 May 2001 10:36:24 -0500, Dennis Myers wrote:
> I am trying to get my scanner working. I have installed "sane" and am trying
> to install xscanimage. When I use the rpm package, I get a dependency for
> "libgimp-1.1.so.18" . There is no libgimp-1.1.so.18 any where to be found on
> rpmfind or on the CDs. Only 1.2 version. Has anyone got this thing to work?
> What is a work around or an alternate scanner utility? Any help is
> appreciated. TIA
>
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> Dennis M. registered Linux user # 180842
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