On November 3, 2005 10:12, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: > Ron Hunter-Duvar schrieb: > > I have a chance to pick up a used AGFA Snapscan 1212U from a friend (he > > moved to XP and it's not supported, and gives dire warnings against > > trying). > > > > I see that the support on both the current stable version and the dev > > version is marked as "good". Is there any important features known to be > > missing that stop it from being marked "complete"? Or is it just because > > "complete" is hard to achieve/prove (I saw the recent thread on the > > definitions of "good" and "complete")? > > > > Any particular positive or negatives experiences? > > I've been using mine for many years now without problems under > linux/sane and XP - it's well supported there if you have the proper > driver, which is still available although AGFA has discontinued support > for their scanners: > http://www.agfa.com/digicam_scanner_drivers/scanner/snapscan_1212u/index.ht >ml > > You'll really need the firmware file, even under linux, which has to be > loaded into the scanner's volatile memory every time it is switched on. > So, if you don't have that, I can send it to you off list. > > Klaus
On the install cd there's a Setup/layout.bin file. Is that the firmware file? If not, can you tell me the name? I have the install cd, and I have it installed and working on my win98 partition, but I don't know for sure which file is the firmware file. BTW, my friend gave it to me for free. He'd already decided to buy a new one, and just wanted to get rid of the old one. In the meantime, I decided to check ebay, and they had one there with a starting bid of $US10, and no bids placed. -- Ron ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine.
