[sane-devel] Epson 1250

Gerhard Jaeger gerhard@gjaeger.de
Wed, 17 Sep 2003 09:06:42 +0200


On Mittwoch, 17. September 2003 08:25, fsanta wrote:
> > > Anyone know if this scanner will work with SuSE 8.2?
> >
> > Which Sane-version is installed on stock SuSE 8.2?
>
> rpm -q sane
> sane-1.0.10-36

Should work, but I recommend 1.0.12

>
> > > I'm confused about the Plustek backend in the
> > > documentation.
> >
> > Why? What can be done to fix this?
>
> Well, it's an epson scanner but it's not really. . . Just
> need to know whether to buy it or not.

Epson is the manufacturer, but they use the same chipset like
Plustek and as I started with Plustek devices, I named the backend
Plustek... - it might should be renamed to lm983x or merlin to reflect th=
at
this chipset is upported...

Gerhard