Rick
11-30-2003, 05:06 PM
In the Scanner aplet in Linux specificly in Mandrake and a few other distro's
Is XSANE
A few distro's back I sent the people who wrote this program a message about the support for 35 mm scanners included in their last version
It had a small bug in it.
Treating the older scanners in the same way as new ones.
( Older were 3 pass and new models were 1 pass)
In Any other operating system I would expect them to give me the M$ answer.
Of contact the manufacturer for support..
Then be told by the manufacturer to go spend more $$ for a new scanner because they decided not support that model in the newer operating system
Well I just ran the Update for XSANE this afternoon
Then I ran my OLD scanner through a few tests
Fully expecting it to crash or lock my scanner again
It didn't do either .
It worked flawlessly
From 100 dpi all the way up to 4821x3285x24
All this without having to upgrade Mandrake 9.0
Just activate the Xsane again while allowing it to download the update RPM..
One More small detail to keep me coming back to Linux
:)
Is XSANE
A few distro's back I sent the people who wrote this program a message about the support for 35 mm scanners included in their last version
It had a small bug in it.
Treating the older scanners in the same way as new ones.
( Older were 3 pass and new models were 1 pass)
In Any other operating system I would expect them to give me the M$ answer.
Of contact the manufacturer for support..
Then be told by the manufacturer to go spend more $$ for a new scanner because they decided not support that model in the newer operating system
Well I just ran the Update for XSANE this afternoon
Then I ran my OLD scanner through a few tests
Fully expecting it to crash or lock my scanner again
It didn't do either .
It worked flawlessly
From 100 dpi all the way up to 4821x3285x24
All this without having to upgrade Mandrake 9.0
Just activate the Xsane again while allowing it to download the update RPM..
One More small detail to keep me coming back to Linux
:)