On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:33 AM, 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.
According to sane, it's fully supported - http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html so I would assume in my naivety that you'd just plug it in and it would work!
I've seen that link but one has still got to install genesys, which is what i've done.... and it should work. I had a winmodem years ago in the days of windoze on dialup and it wouldn't work on five different drivers allegedly for the chip. Quite by accident i found a generic one did. I find drivers a 'touch-and-go' issue. But i'm not an IT guy so everything i do is a bit hit and miss.
james