Am Fre, 07 Jul 2000 schrieb dave-mlist@bfnet.com:
Hi Dave,
> Red Hat 6.2, Kernel 2.2.14
SuSE 6.3., Kernel 2.2.14
> I have tried several ways to use SANE to scan with the Nikon LS2000,
> and none of them have worked. I'm looking for some advice as to where
> to go next. I have never tried this scanner with a windows machine.
>
> I tried to FTP the sane backend for the coolscan at
> http://www.sema.be/coolscan/ but there doesn't appear to be any FTP
> access.
I tried it also vainly. The last time they updated that side was
two years ago.
> I tried the modified backend at
> http://andreas.rick.free.fr/sane/coolscan.html and was actually able
> to download sane-1.0.2_coolscan043.tgz. This compiled fine, but the
> preview and scan buttons don't seem to do anything. I tried loading
> the film both before and after hitting the buttons.
My LS2000 works.
> I tried vuescan at http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html, and VueScan 5.9t53
> for Linux. This appears to be more functional than SANE: at least the
> abort and film eject buttons work fine. I was actually able to get a
> sort of image from the scan, but it took a really long time, and it
> did not look very clean. I was not able to save the image or control
> which image on the negative to scan. This may be because of the trial
> (unregistered) status of the software.
Thank you for this tip. I am trying it at the moment and it is
working, too. The installation was easy, what was very very nice.
vuescan has more features but the scans take you a longer time.
> Does anybody out there have an LS2000 working with SANE?
I think you have an SCSI-problem probably with the termination or
the cable-length.
Karlheinz
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