[sane-devel] SANE Drivers on PowerPC (Debian lenny PPC) ?

m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 8 16:02:24 UTC 2009


The brother machines are not supported by free software. This is also
true for some Epson machines, but the CX21 appears to use the
traditional protocol supported by sane-epson2. However, it is
untested. Compiling is not that hard, we can help you there, if
required

allan

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Dipl.Geogr.G.Birkenfeld
<gerobirkenfeld at web.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>   I have got a Brother 9450CDN All-in-one here, and I donnot see a
> possibilty to run the scanner part under Debian Linux Lenny PPC (PowerPC
> Architecture !!!). Have you got an Idea ? Already contacted a few people
> about this issue, so I might get an Epson CX21 instead. I saw there is a
> compatible SANE Driver, but can it be used under PowerPC Debian ???? I
> donnot know anything about Linux, so I guess recompiling the sources myself
> would be quiet hard.
> For my HP Officejet 7410 I just started Xsane the rest was automatic and
> straight forward on my PPC. Will this be possible with Epson CX21 as well
> ???
>
> Thanks for hints or even other suggestions.
>
> G.Birkenfeld
>
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