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.
thanks james
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!
My Canon LIDE 25 is not supported according to that list and yet it works fine. If I fire up XSane, it scans for the devices, lists a webcam and the scanner and that's it. I have to confess that I haven't yet managed to get to grips with all the options in XSane and so use it in Windows XP under Virtual Box :-(
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
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.
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
On 18/06/13 12:26, Chris Walker wrote:
On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:21:40 +0100
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."
I would highly recommend Vuescan - OK, it's not free-as-in-beer or free-as-in-speech (although there is a free trial), but it totally resurrected my old Canoscan FS4000 film scanner (for which there's no Sane support and probably never will be) which was previously just gathering dust and which was about to be put on eBay. It also made a much better job of driving a bog-standard Genius/KYE flatbed scanner (I could /never/ get Sane to access/set the Gamma setting that this particular scanner supports so the scans were always a bit dark and weird).
It's meant that I've been able to scan nearly 14,000 frames from my old negatives (over the last couple of years) from photos dating back to the mid 1980s, with great results. This, to me, was absolutely worth the $50 or whatever it was.
And no - I'm not an employee or on commission!
Simon
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