Has anyone ever made scanning work?

[Bill Davidsen]

Bruce Byfield wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
>> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Bill Davidsen
>> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 3:13 PM
>> To: For users of Fedora
>> Subject: Has anyone ever made scanning work?
>>
>>
>> Has anyone ever made scanning actually work with FC6 or FC7? I have been 
>> trying in spare time for months, and bought a brand new Epson perfection 
>> 2480 Photo scanner because it was supported.
> 
> Have a look at the list of supported scanners at:
> 
> http://www.sane-project.org/

And three of the "good" or better ones won't do anything. On any of the 
systems here which range from 486s to core2quad machine, in both Intel 
and AMD flavors, running everything from old Slackware thru SuSE, 
FC{1,4,5,6,7}, and one minimal ubuntu machine.
> 
> BTW, the Epson 2480 Photo scanner is listed as "good" which means that
> it generally works, but that some features might be missing. There are
> lots of Epson scanner models that are listed as "complete" and would
> probably be a better choice.
> 
I'd settle for "works" first. Interestingly I can scan from my TV 
capture card, a webcam, and I think an old parallel port unit, which 
worked on RH8 years ago. Just the new USB scanner and the expensive SCSI 
scanner don't work, the two I really want to use.

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Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
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