On 07/10/2013 07:57 AM, Philippe LeCavalier wrote:
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 7:48 AM, <linuxnuts...@videotron.ca
<mailto:linuxnuts...@videotron.ca>> wrote:
On 07/10/2013 07:30 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 06:52:29 -0400
linuxnuts...@videotron.ca <mailto:linuxnuts...@videotron.ca> wrote:
Would there be a particular line of scanners which function
flawlessly
in linux, or am I expecting too much?
Not exactly the best solution, but I have a Epson Artisan all-in-one
device with a network connection, so when I want to use the scanner,
I crank up a Windows virtual machine and scan from there over
the network,
saving the files on a samba mount that is served by the host.
The hplip package (which you can get from the fedora repos) has
support for most HP all-in-one devices, but essentially no stand
alone scanners.
It sees this particular stand-alone just fine, but it simply
doesn't work fine. The scanner interface will either lock up or
simply crash. In order to get it to start scanning again I have to
either reboot or kill the scanlite process...
Never used scanlite. I always either scanned directly from GIMP or via
CLI(if I remember correctly). Based on experience I doubt your issues
are hardware related on the computer side(doesn't mean they're not but
I'd say unlikely). Most scanners are made pretty cheap. That said, have
you tried a different USB cable? ppl tend to overlook that part of the
equation...
Have you tried Xsane? Looks to me like that's the more "mainstream" app
for what you're trying to do.
Phil
Yep, I've scanned from the gimp and used xsane, switched cables,
etc... The only thing I haven't tried is an all-in-one which is
supported. I had a lexmark which wasn't supported and was given away
because there were no drivers beyond winxp. I guess what I'm looking for
is a magic bullet, where somebody on the list says "this model works
perfectly!" :-)
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