Baslinux mailing list

[Ron Clarke <ariadne AT earthlink.com.au>]

Hi Folks,

    I have a problem with using a scanner that has just become available to 
me.
It is an Acer ScanPrisa 340P flatbed parallel port model, that came with 
software for Win95.

    I don't have any Windows higher than 3.1.

    According to the Linux-HOWTOs, Acer scanners are not supported by Linux 
because they don't release their codes.   And a search on Google-Linux found 
only a handful of websites (none in English) and none that seemed to offer 
any advice except to use Win XP.     Yeah, right !

    Sane (in Peanut(=Red Hat) Linux and in SW9.1) does not find parallel port 
scanners.
Neither does it in Knoppix.

    Has anyone hand any experience with either parallel port, or Acer, 
scanners ?

    I am reluctant to throw away a perfectly good, functioning, flat bed 
scanner.  It was attached to my wife's Win98/2000 machine until I (foolishly, 
perhaps) purchased a Brother USB scanner/copier/printer that was found (after 
purchase) not to run under Linux either.

Regards,
         Ron

-- 
Ron Clarke 
AUSREG Consultancy      http://www.ausreg.com
Tadpole Tunes           http://tadpole.mytunebook.de/
This mail sent to you from sylpheed running on penguin-power