Hi Steve,
If memory serves me, the SuSe USB backport is based on very old USB code.
You can retreive later backports from http://www.linux-usb.org.
Although several scanners, 40+, are recognized by the USB scanner driver,
*most-not all* HP's, Epson, Agfa and soon Acer are known to work via USB
and SANE. Some info/news can be gathered from
http://www.jump.net/~dnelson/linux/usb.
At the soon to be released version of the driver (0.4.2) there seems to be
a performance issue and this is in the queue for me to investigate.
Otherwise, some stats that I got before things slowed down are:
* Performance:
*
* System: Pentium 120, 80 MB RAM, OHCI, Linux 2.3.23, HP 4100C USB
Scanner
* 300 dpi scan of the entire bed
* 24 Bit Color ~ 70 secs - 3.6 Mbit/sec
* 8 Bit Gray ~ 17 secs - 4.2 Mbit/sec
Hmmm, I thought I had some performance numbers documented in the
scanner*.txt files comparing w98 and linux but I can't seem to find
those...sigh. Anyways, 8 bit scans performed equally well, linux
outperformed w98 on 24 bit scans, though.
Pictures using an HP-4100 in conjunction with gimp and SANE using Linux
can be viewed at http://www.jump.net/~dnelson/travels. Scans from an
HP-5200 were outstanding in comparison with the 4100 (as is the price for
the 5200 ;).
Regards,
/\/elson
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, S.P.Sheriff wrote:
> Hi everyone
>
> Am trying desperately to come to terms with SANE, kernels and modules.
> As I see it I have the choice between a SCSI scanner and a USB one for
> Linux. The latter seem freely available whilst the former have to be
> ordered through a specialist dealer (here in Spain at least). Does
> SANE recognise both in the same way or is the way that they are set up
> different? Apparently, my kernel (SuSE 6.3 from the box) has support
> for USB backported from the 2.3 kernel. Does this mean that I can plug
> in a supported USB scanner and have SANE recognise it as a device?
>
> Any help however small much appreciated.
>
> THanks from Steve at FeF, Spain.
>
>
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