[sane-devel] Epson Perfection 1660 photo -> Driver(s)

[Karl Heinz Kremer]

You should not have to manually edit the file modules.usbmap: It gets
created / updated when you run /sbin/depmod -a 
This also means that the next time your system runs this command, your
changes will be lost. Do you have the options for the scanner in /etc/modules.conf? This should be sufficient to create the file the way you need it.

For negatives, it is not sufficient to just reverse the colors. When you have
a chance, look at a historgram of a good slide and then at one from a negative.
The slide will have a very broad histogram, you will see pretty much all
densities. The negative however will be very narrow. You need to reverse the colors, and then in a second step you have to "spread it out" again.

Karl Heinz


On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 04:40:28PM +1200, John Williams wrote:
> I'm using Mandrake 8.2 distro.
> Dave Lerner has been helping too. He suggested editing 
> /etc/hotplug/usb.distmap which I did but it did not succeed. But by chance I 
> found /lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk/modules.usbmap and had a 
> look. It seemed to be very similar to /etc/hotplug/usb.distmap so I changed 
> the scanner ID in that and to my great pleasure the scanner can now be 
> started from the Desktop (a new scanner icon appeared on the Desktop).
> Also, I found that Kodak slide transparencies scan well, it is just the 
> colour negatives that look washed out, even when I apply the reversal button 
> on the menu. I'm sure that will be sorted soon. Thank you both for your help, 
> I never would have known what to do without it. John.
> 
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