[Fedora 12] Throw out my parallel port flatbed scanner?
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From: Ohmster on 13 Feb 2010 12:17 I have an Adara Slimstar flatbed scanner that I have had and took excellent care of since I got it with a new, top of the line Win98 computer. I used the flatbed with XP Pro by using Mustek drivers for a Slimscan scanner with the twain 32 drivers, swiss knife program, and it came with some sort of "fake" scssi driver that would put a fake scssi device in the device manager. This worked fine, other than if you tried to scan in line art mode, the computer would lock up. No big deal, can always drop the color pallet depth later. Now that I have Windows 7, NO driver anywhere will work with this scanner. Since Linux has always supported flatbed scanners, I decided to give it a try and hook it up to the parallel port of my Fedora 12 machine. xsane finds no available scanners. I do have the kernel module loaded for parport-pc: [ohmster(a)ohmster ~]$ lsmod |grep parport parport_pc 22748 0 parport 29300 2 ppdev,parport_pc [ohmster(a)ohmster ~]$ I do not have a link to any kind of scanner in /dev I also uncommented mustek_pp in my /etc/sane.d/dll.conf file. But I cannot find a scanner on the system at all. Any kind of HOW-TO is very vague on this subject of parallel port scanners with sane. Most of them tell to use a modern USB scanner and be done with it. So the question is, do I have any hope of ever using this wonderful scanner ever again or using it in Linux? It seems that no one will write drivers for an old product and the existing drivers do not work with a modern OS. What to do, throw out the scanner or is there a way to make it work in Fedora 12? Help please. Thank you. -- ~Ohmster | ohmster59 /a/t/ gmail dot com Put "messageforohmster" in message body (That is Message Body, not Subject!) to pass my spam filter. |