On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 07:32, Bill Bennett wrote: > I have been given a scanner. > > An Agfa 1212 Snapscan. Parallel port.
<snip> > Has anybody else had experience with this model. Or, if it comes > to that, with Agfa? No, but I got curious, as I've been working out some other scanners recently, and intend to write drivers for two parallel port scanners in the future. I can't do that yet. I did find there are SCSI, USB, and apparently parallel port versions of this scanner. The SCSI and USB versions are reported to work: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2002-Mar/1708.html http://www.mostang.com/sane/sane-mfgs.html >From my reading to date, I understand many parallel port devices are SCSI internally, and GNU/Linux code exists to deal with this aspect in many cases. I don't yet know what sort of surgery is needed to graft this onto a working SCSI Agfa model, though. One possibility that's mentioned generally is to install the programs and driver in WINE, and use that. Several people mention this as a way to gather the info to reverse engineer the protocol, so perhaps it works in it's own right. Cheers, Bret -- bwaldow at alum.mit.edu -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
