[ale] A use for Windows . . .

[Fulton Green]

FWIW, my UMAX Astra 1220U (the last "U" standing for USB) works very
well with Linux and XSANE. That wasn't the case only a few years ago, when
USB support was just in its infancy.

On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 03:03:28PM -0500, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> On Thursday 31 October 2002 12:04 pm, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> > What distribution and kernel are you running?  I have a SCSI scanner as
> > well as a USB scanner.  With the right kernel modules it all works just
> > great.  XSANE is a great tool as well.
> 
> I am using XSANE to drive my HP ScanJet 3C.  It is hooked to a stock
> SCSI card. (originally came with an ISA bus proprietary SCSI card and
> the new computer doesn't _have_ an ISA slot!).  Windows identified
> the SCSI card on initial boot, loaded the correct driver, but couldn't
> identify the scanner -- too old.  Once I told Windows what to look for,
> it found the scanner, installed the correct driver, fixed things so
> the scanner is reachable from graphics programs such as Photoshop.
> With XSane, I still had to jump through hoops to get the scanner to
> work, and I still have only a limited subset of features available.
> I can't bitch too much, however, as HP doesn't even support this
> model scanner any more -- it's too old! <grin>

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