The story:
The coolscan belongs to my friend. He's in his 80's, can't walk. He
was a professional photographer and also did photo-art and worked on the
local-newspaper as the camera-guy. He got hit by a truck and his legs
don't function anymore. He had a win98 system somewhere in his house
the nikon coolscan was connected to, but I haven't found it yet. I
offered to help him get the coolscan working again so he would be able
to scan his film and resume his art and sell his pictures again.
Because all he gets to live on is SSI and medicare and I can't afford to
support him.
I found out yesterday that the firewire hardware needed to adapt to my
laptop doesn't exist anymore and the intel-code to support it only
exists in generation 11 and older. My laptop is a gen 10 and his laptop
is one year older than mine. I live on SSI too, so I can't buy much to
help him with. I've got a Intel 6gen small form factor Dell computer a
pci-board would fit into that's just consuming space. The board won't
arrive till next week. I was never an Apple guy although I do know they
used BSD for an OS. Would the Nikon be more likely to work if I put a
BSD OS on a computer?
The poor results with the coolscan3 response tells me it's the cable (I
bought two from different vendors) or the nikon coolscan itself.
There's a vague burnt electronics smell emanating from the nikon but I
didn't find any damage upon inspection. There's a voltage divider
power-load in the power-supply, the smell seems to be from there so I'm
thinking it's ok.
I really appreciate your assistance/advice in this.
jan
On 8/18/25 10:18, Ralph Little wrote:
Hi,
On Sun, Aug 17, 2025 at 3:39 AM Jan via sane-devel
<[email protected]> wrote:
I see the files: coolscan2.conf, coolscan3.conf and coolscan.conf
in my
sane directory. I have a Nikon Super Coolscan 4000 ED connected
to my
Dell Latitude 5410. When I put "scanimage -L" into my terminal I
get :
('v4l:/dev/video0' is a Noname Integrated_Webcam_HD: Integrate
virtual
device) for a response. I think this is the laptop's camera, not
the Nikon.
According to the coolscan3 manpage, it is said to support this device
through firewire.
I don't know much about firewire support in SANE, but you could try this:
SANE_DEBUG_COOLSCAN3=128 scanimage -L
...and let us see the output.
Cheers,
Ralph
