According to R.O. Blättner <rolf.blaett...@nuernberg.netsurf.de>: > Hi ! > > I just ordered a Canon FS 4000 US film scanner. :-)
Hmm... > I couldn't find'em as supported on sane web page. :-( Thank you Canon. > Of course, I looked BEFORE ordering, but my considerations to buy > a film scanner (with reasonable resolution and a fair price) are > going on for 2 years now and I could'nt wait longer... > > It has both SCSI and USB interfaces, resolution is 4000x4000 ppi. > > Has anybody experiences with this scanner? > > How good/bad is the chance that this scanner would be supported > by sane in (near) future ? You may try the sane-canon backend, in SCSI. Anyway Canon is NEVER a good choice when it comes to interoperating with non Windows system. Let me quote http://www.buzzard.org.uk/jonathan/scanners-usb.html: "Canon appear to be unwilling to release the necessary documentation to enable a Linux driver and SANE backend to be written." But VueScan seems to support it, both SCSI and USB. > What could I do to help this scanner being supported ? 1/ provide FCC ID of the scanner to check wether it is OEM or not. FCC ID is found on a label that usually carry serial # and other stuff. That will allow to check against a possible compatibility with other scanners. > Notion: I dont't have any HW for protocol sniffing, but I'm quite > experienced in C, C++, *nix/Linux kernels. You just need to sniff at software level.... > ... don't want to install Winblows again on one of my boxes since > they are M$-free for a couple of years now ... :-) ... but you require a working driver to do that. Luckily VueScan works with it, but you'd better try with the Windoze driver. (sorry about that). Hub
