On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Chris Walker cdw_alug@the-walker-household.co.uk wrote:
On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:21:40 +0100 James Freer jessejazza3.uk@gmail.com wrote:
In my enthusiasm to ditch windows i thought i'd attempt to get my scanner working as it seems drivers are now available for the GL646 chip.
Ubuntu wiki have a 'how-to'
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompileSaneFromSource
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CheckIfScannerIsClone
The first link appears to download more than necessary it seems.
I would be grateful if someone more knowledgeable on drivers could read those pages through as something isn't right somewhere. I was just going to buy another scanner but the latest Canoscan (and others) also use the GL646 chip.
I've also found this - http://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/xerox_onetouch_2400.html which says "You can use this scanner on Mac OS X and Linux without installing any other software but be sure to to set up libusb device protections on Linux."
"HTH" - yes! but not my poor bank account!
I hadn't thought of looking at paid for drivers i must admit. Thing is this GL646 seems to be in quite a lot of scanners. Now that it's available no doubt distros will sometime incorporate a driver library like printers have. Thing is i haven't got the confidence in it to repeatedly install with every linux release - so back to old PC. I use just for scanning and word processing (currently as Abiword in deb distros is only developmental due to dependencies i gather and LO-writer has font problems).
james