Scanner Support

[Chris Spencer]

Philip Moller wrote:
> Your Canoscan N676U is supported by sane according to this site:
> http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#Z-CANON
> 
> Have you tried the scanner with the linuxprogram kooka ?
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/kooka/
> 
> I have a Canoscan LIDE 20 and is working perfectly with fc4 on my machine.
> I plugged the scanner in my usb and used kooka to scan and that worked 
> very well for me.
> I didn't need to tweak any config for it to work, it worked direct after 
> pluggin.
> I have no problem with the backend plustek 
> http://www.gjaeger.de/scanner/plustek/

I tried using a different USB port, and now it seems be working better 
(ie no grinding noises). I might just have had it plugged into an 
inadequately powered port. The whole kdegraphics package looks 
interesting, so I probably give that look. Thanks for the advice.

Chris