Re: [solved] scanners no more found on an amd64 laptop

2017-12-22 Thread Curt
>packages (on Jessie) >Fortunately, what an upgrade broke, an other upgrade has fixed: >I upgraded from Jessie to Stretch (which took a rather long time) >and after that all the scanners are seen again. So you changed religions. Right. > best regards, -- "An

Re: [solved] scanners no more found on an amd64 laptop

2017-12-22 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
upgrade has fixed: I upgraded from Jessie to Stretch (which took a rather long time) and after that all the scanners are seen again. best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel

Re: scanners no more found on an amd64 laptop

2017-12-22 Thread Brian
On Fri 22 Dec 2017 at 15:57:37 +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > until yesterday, my 2 network scanners > - HP LaserJet Pro MFP M227 > - HP Officejet Pro 6830 > were found and worked for printing and scanning. > God knows what happened during the nightly upgrade, but today,

scanners no more found on an amd64 laptop

2017-12-22 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
hi, until yesterday, my 2 network scanners - HP LaserJet Pro MFP M227 - HP Officejet Pro 6830 were found and worked for printing and scanning. God knows what happened during the nightly upgrade, but today, the scanners are not found on my laptop (printing still works correctly) Can anybody

Re: brother printer/scanners

2017-01-04 Thread Igor Cicimov
On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 12:27 PM, Igor Cicimov wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 11:38 AM, Joel Rees wrote: > >> I got a Brother printer to work by installing both the debian packages >> from the repos and the deb from Brother's website, but the scanner >> still isn't being found. >> >> Running

Re: brother printer/scanners

2017-01-04 Thread John Hasler
Nicolas George writes: > Part of the development have been outsourced and the contract does not > allow allow to distribute the source code, or even does not provide it > to the main company. This is very likely. They may not have even outsourced any work: just purchased a license for some "IP":

Re: brother printer/scanners

2017-01-04 Thread Nicolas George
Le quintidi 15 nivôse, an CCXXV, Jape Person a écrit : > I really don't understand what Brother et. al. expect to gain from this > obstinance. It's certain that the source or close relatives thereof is "out > there" and, one presumes, available. It's not the crown jewels or trade > secrets. It's j

Re: brother printer/scanners

2017-01-04 Thread Jape Person
have drivers for some scanners which claim to be under the GPL. No source code though. Yeah, what's up with that? Don't the various GPL versions require the source code to be made available if you're going to alter the software and re-distribute it? The best I ca

Re: brother printer/scanners

2017-01-04 Thread Brian
On Wed 04 Jan 2017 at 13:19:43 -0500, Jape Person wrote: > On 01/04/2017 11:27 AM, Brian wrote: > > >Some manufacturers, HP and Epson, for example, integrate their scanner > >software and co-operate with SANE developers; Brother don't seem to, > >although they do h

Re: brother printer/scanners

2017-01-04 Thread Jape Person
poker hand without showing their cards. In the real world you have to put up or shut up. (Show me or bl*w me was the way the old boat chief on the Skipjack used to put it.) Some manufacturers, HP and Epson, for example, integrate their scanner software and co-operate with SANE developers; Brot

Re: brother printer/scanners

2017-01-04 Thread Brian
tion between free and non-free software) that a change in Debian is the cause of printing or scanning failure is not unknown. Vendors not keeping their offerings up-to-date wrt Debian is not the norm, I would say. Some manufacturers, HP and Epson, for example, integrate their scanner software and co-o

Re: brother printer/scanners

2017-01-02 Thread Joel Rees
Woops. Corrections below: On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 2:29 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > (Ben saw this, anyway. 8-p > > Sorry. Wandering back and forth between Ubuntu and Debian, I sometimes > forget that debian treats e-mail as e-mail, where Ubuntu does the > convenient thing.) > > On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 1:

Re: brother printer/scanners

2017-01-02 Thread Jape Person
Hi, Joel. Just to clear up a point of confusion (mine) -- when you say you got those debs (brscan4, etc.) from the repos, do you mean Debian repositories? I don't see anything like that there. If you're referring to Ubuntu repos, then that's another matter. I can't (won't) use those with a D

Re: brother printer/scanners

2017-01-02 Thread Joel Rees
(Ben saw this, anyway. 8-p Sorry. Wandering back and forth between Ubuntu and Debian, I sometimes forget that debian treats e-mail as e-mail, where Ubuntu does the convenient thing.) On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 1:49 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 02/01/17 13:38, Joel Rees wrote: >> >> I got a Bro

Re: brother printer/scanners

2017-01-02 Thread Jape Person
On 01/02/2017 07:16 PM, Brian wrote: On Mon 02 Jan 2017 at 09:38:24 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: I got a Brother printer to work by installing both the debian packages from the repos and the deb from Brother's website, but the scanner still isn't being found. Any progress on this? Which device is

Re: brother printer/scanners

2017-01-02 Thread Jape Person
On 01/02/2017 06:50 PM, Brian wrote: On Mon 02 Jan 2017 at 10:55:06 -0500, Jape Person wrote: In the end, voting with my dollars accomplished nothing for the FOSS community, because I simply couldn't find a functional equivalent that was free all the way. After a while I just got tired of the r

Re: brother printer/scanners

2017-01-02 Thread Brian
On Mon 02 Jan 2017 at 09:38:24 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > I got a Brother printer to work by installing both the debian packages > from the repos and the deb from Brother's website, but the scanner > still isn't being found. Any progress on this? Which device is it?

Re: brother printer/scanners

2017-01-02 Thread Brian
On Mon 02 Jan 2017 at 10:55:06 -0500, Jape Person wrote: > In the end, voting with my dollars accomplished nothing for the FOSS > community, because I simply couldn't find a functional equivalent that was > free all the way. After a while I just got tired of the research and bought > something tha

Re: brother printer/scanners

2017-01-02 Thread Jape Person
stating? I wouldn't care to spend the time and energy that would be required to prove the point one way or another. Neither do I, and the choice of printers you use, or scanners, becomes considerably more limited when you eliminate the linux drivers supplied by the devices maker, and which I f

Re: brother printer/scanners

2017-01-02 Thread Brian
puter to accomplish the scan? Is that really what you're > > stating? I wouldn't care to spend the time and energy that would be > > required to prove the point one way or another. > > > Neither do I, and the choice of printers you use, or scanners, becomes > con

Re: brother printer/scanners

2017-01-01 Thread Gene Heskett
u do install the Brother proprietary stuff, run > >> debfoster immediately afterward to confirm that you want to keep > >> all of the parts and pieces of the drivers and their libraries so > >> that your package manager won't try to throw it all away the next > >&

Re: brother printer/scanners

2017-01-01 Thread Jape Person
On 01/01/2017 09:29 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 01 January 2017 20:31:00 Jape Person wrote: On 01/01/2017 07:38 PM, Joel Rees wrote: I got a Brother printer to work by installing both the debian packages from the repos and the deb from Brother's website, but the scanner still isn't being

Re: brother printer/scanners

2017-01-01 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 02/01/17 13:38, Joel Rees wrote: I got a Brother printer to work by installing both the debian packages from the repos and the deb from Brother's website, but the scanner still isn't being found. Running Wheezy. Would anyone care to tell me what steps they took to get scan functionality on the

Re: brother printer/scanners

2017-01-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 01 January 2017 20:31:00 Jape Person wrote: > On 01/01/2017 07:38 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > > I got a Brother printer to work by installing both the debian > > packages from the repos and the deb from Brother's website, but the > > scanner still isn't being found. > > > > Running Wheezy. >

Re: brother printer/scanners

2017-01-01 Thread Jape Person
On 01/01/2017 07:38 PM, Joel Rees wrote: I got a Brother printer to work by installing both the debian packages from the repos and the deb from Brother's website, but the scanner still isn't being found. Running Wheezy. Would anyone care to tell me what steps they took to get scan functionality

Re: brother printer/scanners

2017-01-01 Thread Igor Cicimov
On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 11:38 AM, Joel Rees wrote: > I got a Brother printer to work by installing both the debian packages > from the repos and the deb from Brother's website, but the scanner > still isn't being found. > > Running Wheezy. > > Would anyone care to tell me what steps they took to g

Re: brother printer/scanners

2017-01-01 Thread Felix Miata
Joel Rees composed on 2017-01-02 09:38 (UTC+0900): I got a Brother printer to work by installing both the debian packages from the repos and the deb from Brother's website, but the scanner still isn't being found. Running Wheezy. Would anyone care to tell me what steps they took to get sca

brother printer/scanners

2017-01-01 Thread Joel Rees
I got a Brother printer to work by installing both the debian packages from the repos and the deb from Brother's website, but the scanner still isn't being found. Running Wheezy. Would anyone care to tell me what steps they took to get scan functionality on their Brother multifunction printers?

Re: Visoneer Scanners

2011-12-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 30/12/11 20:34, David Baron wrote: > Anyone succesfully used VIsoneer USB scanners, i.e. 9250? > > I don't think you'll find anyone who has got that specific model to work. It's not supported by SANE[*1] or Vuescan[*2]. So if the manufacturer doesn't support it

Visoneer Scanners

2011-12-30 Thread David Baron
Anyone succesfully used VIsoneer USB scanners, i.e. 9250? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201112301134.41968.d_ba...@012.net.il

Re: Fwd: Scanners

2010-02-04 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
My HP All-in-One scans fine using HPLIP. If you buy a new one from the store, you may have to download the latest HPLIP version to support it. The HPLIP website has a nice wizard that shows you if the distro version is new enough or if you need the download. Don't get the units that have wireles

Re: Fwd: Scanners

2010-02-04 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 01:59:31AM +0100, Stuckey wrote: > I'm looking to purchase a scanner. I've looked at the supported > hardware list on http://www.sane-project.org though there are many > listed there and I know nothing about scanners. The list also > doesn'

Re: Fwd: Scanners

2010-02-03 Thread Bob McGowan
list) >> >>> I had an "all-in"one" HP (CM1312) which I wasn't satisfied with. I'm now >>> going to get an older Laserjet 4 and a stand alone scanner. >> --deleted extra-- SANE's website (http://www.sane-project.org/sane-supported-dev

Re: Fwd: Scanners

2010-02-03 Thread Stuckey
nufacture are supported? There's a list at sane, but it doesn't say when it was last updated. Asking people, I'm afraid. Scanners are a "dark" world in Linux, some work very fine and others do not work at all. Just pick some models you like (which fit your budget and tec

Re: Fwd: Scanners

2010-02-03 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 3 February 2010 14:28, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:59:31 +0100, Stuckey wrote: > >> I'm looking to purchase a scanner. I've looked at the supported hardware >> list on http://www.sane-project.org though there are many listed there >> and I kno

Re: Fwd: Scanners

2010-02-03 Thread godo
Stuckey wrote: Hello, I'm looking to purchase a scanner. I've looked at the supported hardware list on http://www.sane-project.org though there are many listed there and I know nothing about scanners. The list also doesn't list the last time it was updated. Perhaps s

Re: Fwd: Scanners

2010-02-03 Thread Camaleón
he Gimp or OOo) using TWAIN that will allow you to perform a direct import of the scanned image and then saving into PDF. > How do I determine which of the newest models of a manufacture are > supported? There's a list at sane, but it doesn't say when it was last > updated. Asking p

Re: Fwd: Scanners

2010-02-03 Thread olafrv
HP PhotoSmart C3180 All-in-one, three years of use and counting with Full support on Debian. --Original Message-- From: Camaleón Sender: news To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Fwd: Scanners Sent: Feb 3, 2010 7:58 AM On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:59:31 +0100, Stuckey wrote: >

Re: Fwd: Scanners

2010-02-03 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:59:31 +0100, Stuckey wrote: > I'm looking to purchase a scanner. I've looked at the supported hardware > list on http://www.sane-project.org though there are many listed there > and I know nothing about scanners. The list also doesn't list the la

Fwd: Scanners

2010-02-02 Thread Stuckey
Hello, I'm looking to purchase a scanner. I've looked at the supported hardware list on http://www.sane-project.org though there are many listed there and I know nothing about scanners. The list also doesn't list the last time it was updated. Perhaps someone here can recom

Re: Can VMware ever talk to USB scanners?

2009-07-15 Thread Steve Kleene
On Thu 9 Jul 2009 21:11:33 -0400, I asked: > Has anyone here gotten a USB scanner to work from VMware 2? On Wed 15 Jul 2009 11:49:21 +0200, Benjamin MENUET suggested: > Check the right of your driver in /dev on your Lenny. > The user who run VMware need to have an access rx on the driver. Tha

Re: Can VMware ever talk to USB scanners?

2009-07-15 Thread Benjamin MENUET
Hi, Check the right of your driver in /dev on your Lenny. The user who run VMware need to have an access rx on the driver. Ben 2009/7/11 Steve Kleene > On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 21:11:33 -0400, I asked: > > > Has anyone here gotten a USB scanner to work from VMware 2? > > On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:55:4

Re: Can VMware ever talk to USB scanners?

2009-07-10 Thread Steve Kleene
On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 21:11:33 -0400, I asked: > Has anyone here gotten a USB scanner to work from VMware 2? On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:55:41 -0700, Kevin Ross replied: > I can't help you with your VMWare problems, but have you tried > VirtualBox instead of VMWare? No, I haven't gotten around to tha

Re: Can VMware ever talk to USB scanners?

2009-07-10 Thread Kevin Ross
I can't help you with your VMWare problems, but have you tried VirtualBox instead of VMWare? -- Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Can VMware ever talk to USB scanners?

2009-07-09 Thread Steve Kleene
I just installed VMware Server 2.0.1 on a Linux host (fresh Lenny install). The client is Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2. I am unable to connect from the XP client to my USB scanner, an Epson Perfection 2400. I did install a USB Controller on the VM. The USB dropdown at the top of t

Re: RFC: Well supported scanners under Linux?

2006-08-05 Thread cr
> On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:40:03 -0300 > > Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear people, > > > > I have some photos that I would like to preserve in a digital form > > and I thought of using a scanner for this. > > > > Unfortunately

Re: RFC: Well supported scanners under Linux?

2006-08-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
d I thought of using a scanner for this. > > > > Unfortunately, I my knowlegdge about scanners is zero and I have > > already visited the sane project page, but could not decide what > > would be a good purchase. > > > > So, in light of this, I would like to ask you some recommend

Re: RFC: Well supported scanners under Linux?

2006-08-05 Thread Jacob S
y, I my knowlegdge about scanners is zero and I have > already visited the sane project page, but could not decide what > would be a good purchase. > > So, in light of this, I would like to ask you some recommendations > based on your experiences for scanners that are fully fun

Re: RFC: Well supported scanners under Linux?

2006-07-26 Thread Russell L. Harris
Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, in light of this, I would like to ask you some recommendations based > on your experiences for scanners that are fully functional under Linux, > from open-source friendly companies. Epson has excellent yet inexpensive scanners in

RFC: Well supported scanners under Linux?

2006-07-26 Thread Rogério Brito
Dear people, I have some photos that I would like to preserve in a digital form and I thought of using a scanner for this. Unfortunately, I my knowlegdge about scanners is zero and I have already visited the sane project page, but could not decide what would be a good purchase. So, in light of

Re: write access to /proc/bus/usb [for scanners]

2004-09-19 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Chris Purves said... > > > If the device is not set to group scanner, have a look in > > /etc/hotplug/usb/libsane.usermap. The comments at the top of this file > > describe how the scanner permissions should be managed. > > My scanner is listed in this file; however, there aren't

Re: write access to /proc/bus/usb [for scanners]

2004-09-18 Thread Chris Purves
On Saturday 18 September 2004 19:07, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > Are you sure only root has permission? Is there group read/write > permission for the group "scanner"? If I go to /proc/bus/usb/002/005 root is both the owner and group. It would appear that /etc/hotplug/usb/libusbscanner is not cha

Re: write access to /proc/bus/usb [for scanners]

2004-09-18 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Chris Purves said... > I've set up an usb scanner recently, but I am having permissions problems. > The scanner generally resides in /proc/bus/usb/003 but only root has > read/write permissions. What I have been doing is manually changing the > permissions access every time I

Re: scanners under 2.6.3

2004-02-22 Thread Philippe Marzouk
anges, and now "grep -i scanner > .config" returns nothing. > > Any idea (tips, URLs) how to get scanners working in 2.6.3? I > have yet to install this kernel, so I don't if my scanner will > automagically work out of the box. But for kernels < 2.6.3, my > scanner r

scanners under 2.6.3

2004-02-22 Thread csj
It seems that CONFIG_USB_SCANNER=m which produces the "scanner" module, has disappeared from kernel 2.6.3. I copied my working 2.6.2 config, passed it thru make gconfig without any manual changes, and now "grep -i scanner .config" returns nothing. Any idea (tips, URLs)

Re: [OT] How fast are scanners nowadays?

2003-02-20 Thread Andrew Perrin
I've got an Epson Perfection 1640 Office scanner, which includes a sheet feeder. I bought a cheap SCSI card for it (it will use SCSI or USB) because when I bought it I was still running a 2.2.x kernel which had mediocre USB support. It's pretty fast for scanning - I'd guess less than a minute per

Re: [OT] How fast are scanners nowadays?

2003-02-19 Thread Michael Heironimus
urposes. I'd need something that works with the speed of a > photocopier. An alternative would be to have something that can > process a whole stack of papers automatically. > > Anyone that has had any experiences with this? You can get scanners with sheet feeders. Some are actual

[OT] How fast are scanners nowadays?

2003-02-19 Thread Alex Polite
Sorry for this grossly OT post. I'd like to scan a whole lot of documents and run them through OCR. Last time I checked scanning a page of text took something like two minutes. This is way to slow for my purposes. I'd need something that works with the speed of a photocopier. An alternative would b

Re: scsi termination for scanners

2002-01-08 Thread Dave Price
> I have a Umax VistaScan S6E that has 25 pin, 50 pin Centronics and an apple > connection. I am using a 2902E Adaptec scsi pci card (external connection > only). When I boot up and load the sys driver it syas that there is no > termination. The card has the three terminators on it. The car

scsi termination for scanners

2002-01-08 Thread DAVID TROUPE
I have a Umax VistaScan S6E that has 25 pin, 50 pin Centronics and an apple connection. I am using a 2902E Adaptec scsi pci card (external connection only). When I boot up and load the sys driver it syas that there is no termination. The card has the three terminators on it. The card has 25 pin

Re: usb scanners & printers

2001-07-16 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 10:06:48AM -0700, tony mollica wrote: > Hi. The local computer fair is in town today > and I'm in the market for a new printer and > scanner, preferably USB. Any suggestions for > either of these? The printer should be able > to print a decent picture. > I am using HP b

Re: usb scanners & printers

2001-07-15 Thread Andy Saxena
I have a Microtek Scanmaker X6. The pro is that the driver is included in the kernel package. -Andy On Sunday July 15 2001 00:08, Sam Varghese wrote: > On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 10:06:48AM -0700, tony mollica wrote: > > Hi. The local computer fair is in town today > > and I'm in the market for a

Re: usb scanners & printers

2001-07-14 Thread Sam Varghese
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 10:06:48AM -0700, tony mollica wrote: > Hi. The local computer fair is in town today > and I'm in the market for a new printer and > scanner, preferably USB. Any suggestions for > either of these? The printer should be able > to print a decent picture. Dunno about printe

usb scanners & printers

2001-07-14 Thread tony mollica
Hi. The local computer fair is in town today and I'm in the market for a new printer and scanner, preferably USB. Any suggestions for either of these? The printer should be able to print a decent picture. thanks, -- -- tony mollica [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bar code scanners

2001-01-01 Thread Jimmy O'Regan
out how well or > otherwise bar code scanners work under Linux. In the same boat :( > > Does anyone have any information as to which scanners are particularly > good/bad > and how they should be connected etc etc, and the same for cash-drawer > triggers? Don't know about cas

Re: Bar code scanners

2001-01-01 Thread kmself
ll the > > software myself (using Perl and the GTK+ bindings). However, I have > > no idea about how well or otherwise bar code scanners work under > > Linux. > > > > Does anyone have any information as to which scanners are > > particularly good/bad and how they s

Re: Bar code scanners

2001-01-01 Thread Angel
t; otherwise bar code scanners work under Linux. > > Does anyone have any information as to which scanners are particularly > good/bad > and how they should be connected etc etc, and the same for cash-drawer > triggers? > > Any info is very gratefully received. I

Bar code scanners

2001-01-01 Thread Matthew Sackman
Dear all! I have been asked to start looking into providing an EPOS system for the shop that I work at. I am hoping to be able to develop all the software myself (using Perl and the GTK+ bindings). However, I have no idea about how well or otherwise bar code scanners work under Linux. Does

Scanners, how?

2000-11-28 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
Hi What are the best models of scanners for Linux (debian)? May I connect it to an USB (or paralel) port? Or do I need an SCSI port? thanks, -- Pedro Quaresma de Almeida e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: USB scanners in Linux

2000-03-08 Thread Ben Collins
> Linux to work also). Anyways, the scanners they want to use are USB, > and TWAIN-compliant (I don't have a model name yet.) I told them I > wasn't sure if we would be able to get it to work, considering it is > USB. I know that the new kernels have USB support, but is i

USB scanners in Linux

2000-03-08 Thread Matheson
Hey, I just got offered a job to program this new device for laptops (you hook your laptop up to it, and you can get TV, radio, network, etc.), but they want to do it in Linux (I would be in charge of getting the Linux to work also). Anyways, the scanners they want to use are USB, and TWAIN

Re: Scanners in Debian

2000-02-21 Thread Bart Szyszka
> I just installed a Microtek X6EL, then xsane, sane, and gimp. That's > all I had to do and this scanner was running. Do you install sane-gimp1.1? Because if I install gimp1.1, then sane gets removed and if I install sane then gimp1.1 gets removed. Is there a configuration utility that comes wit

Re: Scanners in Debian

2000-02-21 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 11:59:27AM +1030, John Pearson wrote: > Most SCSI scanners work under Linux, using SANE. > > USB and parallel port scanners may work with kernel 2.4 > when it comes out, which means they may also work with > some 2.3.x (development) kernels). Does it inc

Re: Scanners in Debian

2000-02-21 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I just installed a Microtek X6EL, then xsane, sane, and gimp. That's all I had to do and this scanner was running. Oh, there were a couple of rough spots. First I had to recompile the kernel with scsi generic support. THen I had to run MAKEDEV in /dev to get /dev/sgX. (Why weren't they there?

Re: Scanners in Debian

2000-02-21 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I just installed a Microtek X6EL, then xsane, sane, and gimp. That's all I had to do and this scanner was running. Oh, there were a couple of rough spots. First I had to recompile the kernel with scsi generic support. THen I had to run MAKEDEV in /dev to get /dev/sgX. (Why weren't they there?

Re: Scanners in Debian

2000-02-21 Thread John Pearson
or use it) in Debian > Slink? > Most SCSI scanners work under Linux, using SANE. USB and parallel port scanners may work with kernel 2.4 when it comes out, which means they may also work with some 2.3.x (development) kernels). John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Oh - I

RE: Scanners in Debian

2000-02-21 Thread John Gay
Scanners are supported under sane for Linux. I've got a AGFA Snapscan 1236S SCSI scanner and this works fine with sane, xscanimage, the X window interface and xsane, a separate X interface for sane. This also works directly as a plug-in for gimp as well. I would recommend goi

Scanners in Debian

2000-02-21 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, My friend is thinking about buying a scanner tomorrow, but I told him to let me find out if it would be possible to use in Linux. It's just an offbrand, 50$ scanner. Could we get drivers (or use it) in Debian Slink? Thanks, Cameron Matheson

Parallel Port Scanners under Linux?

2000-01-05 Thread Emil Soleyman-Zomalan
Hi, I have a CanoScan 630P (parallel port) scanner at home and it works fine under windows but I have since looked around and found out that scanner software such as SANE do not support such hardware. I was wondering if anyone has had any luck with this particular scanner or any parallel porte

Re: satan - other scanners

1999-10-13 Thread Bill Goudie
On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 11:52:53PM -0400, Salman Ahmed wrote: > > "AO" == Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > AO> have you looked into portsentry ?? ( same folks as logcheck )... - > AO> on my todo list > > Is a Debian package (stable or unstable) available for portsentry ? I > ha

Re: satan - other scanners

1999-10-13 Thread David Coe
"Salman Ahmed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is a Debian package (stable or unstable) available for portsentry ? I > haven't been able to find one as yet. Someone is packaging it (for potato); check the debian-devel archive if you want to know who that is (I don't remember); I've been using port

Re: satan - other scanners

1999-10-13 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya dwayne > > what are you guys trying to scan for ??? > > nmap seems to be the one most people use=20 > > http://www.insecure.org/nmap > > Yes, but I want to make sure that someone ELSE using satan can't get into > my sister's box (she wouldn't like that). I've already used nmap. have

Re: satan - other scanners

1999-10-13 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
> what are you guys trying to scan for ??? > > nmap seems to be the one most people use > http://www.insecure.org/nmap Yes, but I want to make sure that someone ELSE using satan can't get into my sister's box (she wouldn't like that). I've already used nmap. -- "I already have all the l

Re: satan - other scanners

1999-10-13 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya... > Yep. I tried to scan some other boxen on my home network, but it wouldn't > run. what are you guys trying to scan for ??? nmap seems to be the one most people use http://www.insecure.org/nmap - trying to my own silly scripts for checking: which sendmail, which apac

Re: Scanners: Compatibility with Linux

1999-05-11 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Tue, 11 May 1999, William Denton wrote: > 1. Where's the SANE webpage - I've tried http://www.mostang.com/sane/ > but it doesn't seem to be there. Try again... I can see it there just fine. It's really the best source of information about scanners and Linux.

Scanners: Compatibility with Linux

1999-05-11 Thread William Denton
ready got a ZIP drive and printer on the parallel port, so was wondering if it was a good idea to hang yet another device off it. The SCSI scanners appear to be quite a bit more expensive. USB ones are comparable with the parallel port ones, but is the USB support in Linux good enought yet? 3. Does anyone

RES: Scanners: Compatibility with Linux

1999-05-11 Thread Leandro Dutra
> 2. Should I get USB, Parallel Port or SCSI? > I've already got a ZIP drive and printer on the parallel port, so > was wondering if it was a good idea to hang yet another device off it. > The SCSI scanners appear to be quite a bit more expensive. USB > ones are comparable wi

Scanners: Compatibility with Linux

1999-05-11 Thread William Denton
ready got a ZIP drive and printer on the parallel port, so was wondering if it was a good idea to hang yet another device off it. The SCSI scanners appear to be quite a bit more expensive. USB ones are comparable with the parallel port ones, but is the USB support in Linux good enought yet? 3. Does anyone

Re: [OT] Low versus medium priced scanners

1999-05-10 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Sun, 9 May 1999, Rick Macdonald wrote: > When comparing a cheap scanner (under $100) such as the Plustek 96xx > series with a medium price scanner such as the so-called business-class HP > 5200c, I can't tell what claims are due to the scanner hardware itself, or > simply the bundled software.

[OT] Low versus medium priced scanners

1999-05-09 Thread Rick Macdonald
When comparing a cheap scanner (under $100) such as the Plustek 96xx series with a medium price scanner such as the so-called business-class HP 5200c, I can't tell what claims are due to the scanner hardware itself, or simply the bundled software. Obviously, the bundled software does a Linux user

Re: Scanners and OCR

1999-04-09 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Mark Mackenzie wrote: > I intend to buy a scanner, mainly to be used for OCR of journal articles > (with some b/w pictures), hopefully for less than $AUS250 (arround $A150 > I guess) Sadly, the state of OCR under Linux is... immature at best. There currently is no usable OCR

Scanners and OCR

1999-04-09 Thread Mark Mackenzie
Hi all, I intend to buy a scanner, mainly to be used for OCR of journal articles (with some b/w pictures), hopefully for less than $AUS250 (arround $A150 I guess) I have had a look at http://www.mostang.com/sane/sane-backends.html and the hardware howto, but the later models I am looking at do

Re: Re: Scanners - SCSI card for ARTEC AT12

1998-10-07 Thread Erik Ch. Ohrnberger
orked fine. My suggestion is to go and buy a SCSI-1 or 2 card that is supported and you should be just fine. IMHO. Erik. Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 13:39:36 +0100 From: "Helge Hafting" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: H C Pumphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subjec

Re: Scanners - SCSI card for ARTEC AT12

1998-10-07 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, H C Pumphrey wrote: > > Hi debian users and SANE people: [...] > No-one mentions the 3181x / 3151x so I can't tell from this what to do > about my card. If anyone can tell me what to do or point me at the right > documentation, I'd be grateful. [...] If you go to the SANE ft

Re: Scanners - SCSI card for ARTEC AT12

1998-10-06 Thread Helge Hafting
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/06/98 at 12:24 PM, H C Pumphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [...] >No-one mentions the 3181x / 3151x so I can't tell from this what to do >about my card. If anyone can tell me what to do or point me at the right >documentation, I'd be grateful. If it is neither o

Scanners - SCSI card for ARTEC AT12

1998-10-06 Thread H C Pumphrey
Hi debian users and SANE people: This is tangential to, but not unconnected with the recent request on debian-user for advice about what scanner to get. When I bought my Debian system recently I got an ARTEC AT12 scanner because (a) it was on the SANE supporeted list (b) it is alledgedly a very g

Re: Scanners - recommandations?

1998-10-06 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
on. There *are* other scanning programs (e.g., XVScan, which is commercial and to my knowledge only supports HP scanners but is supposed to be quite good) but SANE is (a) free, (b) network-transparent, and (c) works on multiple platforms, eventually including Windows. Two words of caution. First, paral

Re: Scanners - recommandations?

1998-10-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"John" == John Plate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> I'm planning to buy a scanner. What type will work well with Linux? You should look into the SANE project. Specifically, the backends (which are scanner specific) are detailed in http://www.mostang.com/sane/sane-backends.htm

Scanners - recommandations?

1998-10-02 Thread John Plate
Hi I'm planning to buy a scanner. What type will work well with Linux? Thank you in advance. -- John Plate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: scanners

1998-09-13 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, Keith wrote: > Yes scanners do work on Linux. Unfortunately not all of them. I have a cheap ColorHand scanner from Primax, ant is not supported by Linux. I have written to Primax to ask them for specification necessary for writing a driver. A was very surprised, that I

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