Hi!
It is possible to get a Microtek 330CX to work under Linux. I had mine working
for a couple of months at the beginning of the year. It is unfortunatley not
worth the effort. I ended up buying a Mustek SE 12000SP, with which I am very
happy. Just don't bother using the SCSI card it comes with. An Initio 9100UW
does a very good job and is inexpensive. Back to the Phantom: There are still
some issues in the driver that make the scans come out too dark, adn they are
also generally reversed left for right and there are problems with the
positioning of previews and scan areas in xsane/xscanimage. All of these
problems are due to some work that needs to be done on the backend. It seems,
though, that the maintainer has dropped out of sight. I haven't seen an
announcement of a new version of the Microtek2 backend since January 2000. Bernd
did answer a posting here a while back, but that was about all,
BTW: The difficulties that Riku mentioned with the Windows drivers is one of the
reasons that Windows has been banned from my computer. The crashes and random
"Scanner doesn't want to play today" crap just got on my nerves. In Berd's
defense, I must say that although the Windows driver delivered better scans, the
Microtek2 backend never crashed in all the time I was monkeying with it. If you
want to lock up Windows, pull the power plug on your Phantom in the middle of a
scan and watch Windows croak. The Microtek2 backend just times out and exits
gracefully. I know this because I had a bad extension cord that caused a few
problems:-)
Joseph R. Eoff
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