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 include only "SCSI ov

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
On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 10:03:53AM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote > 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

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 going to : www.mostang.