[sane-devel] Minolta Scan Dual II (status report)

[Hubert Figuiere]

According to Jose Paulo Moitinho de Almeida <moitinho at civil.ist.utl.pt>:

> Using the hpusbscsi driver by Oliver Neukum I managed to use this film 
> scanner under linux using kernel 2.4.13 and vuescan 2.1. :-)
> 
> It worked out of the box, the only problem being some gray cross lines ;-)
> 
> For all that need imediate linux access this is probably the way to go. There 
> may be some problems left in the driver (at least one around error 
> handling...), which is labelled EXPERIMENTAL, but for strightforward use it 
> performmed without problems.
> 
> As we now have a driver to access the scanner I think that it is time to go 
> for a sane backend. In the past few weeks I contacted David R., who got 
> some specs from Minolta (for other scanners?) back in 1999. He confirmed that 
> he is no longer working on it.
> 
> I have also tryed to get in touch with Davis's contact in Minolta (no answer) 
> and with SuSE (you can see why in
> http://www.suse.de/en/press/press_releases/archive00/Minolta.html),
> but other than an automated call number I could not get any answer to the 
> fundamental question: is there a way to get the specs?
> 
> Before other alternatives are used (and they require more time) I would like 
> to ask the list:
> 
> Anyone knows how/where to get the specs for the Minolta Scan Dual II?