[sane-devel] about the sane-file for Nikon Coolscan

Ralph Little skelband at gmail.com
Mon Aug 18 18:18:53 BST 2025


Hi,

On Sun, Aug 17, 2025 at 3:39 AM Jan via sane-devel <
sane-devel at alioth-lists.debian.net> wrote:

> I see the files: coolscan2.conf, coolscan3.conf and coolscan.conf in my
> sane directory.  I have a Nikon Super Coolscan 4000 ED connected to my
> Dell Latitude 5410.  When I put "scanimage -L" into my terminal I get :
> ('v4l:/dev/video0' is a Noname Integrated_Webcam_HD: Integrate virtual
> device) for a response.  I think this is the laptop's camera, not the
> Nikon.
>
>
According to the coolscan3 manpage, it is said to support this device
through firewire.
I don't know much about firewire support in SANE, but you could try this:

SANE_DEBUG_COOLSCAN3=128 scanimage -L

...and let us see the output.

Cheers,
Ralph
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