Re: Question on Scanner and sane
On 5 Feb 00, at 4:32, Tung-Han Hsieh wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I just buy an AcerScan Prisa 320P scanner. It is connected to
> parallel port. It works fine under Win95. Is it possible to use
> it under Debian?
>
> Besides, I tried to use sane package to see if it is helpful.
> But I found something strange. My system is potato (upgraded
> one week ago), and the sane package version are:
>
> libsane: 1.0.1-1999-10-21-9
> sane: 1.0.1-1999-10-21-9
>
> but when I run "scanimage --list-devices", the menu said that it
> should report all the devices found in /etc/sane.d/, but it report
> nothing. If I run "scanimage --help", it reports:
>
> =============================================================================
> Usage: scanimage [OPTION]...
>
I think you may have to wait until the 2.4 kernel. It is supposed to
have much better paralell support...
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K-SAR Video Productions
Utah State University
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