[sane-devel] Epson 1250

[fsanta]

Thanks Gerhard

I bought it this morning and it worked totally out of the 
box using SuSE's Yast 2 configuration. Nice job on the 
software. Recommended. Thanks again. Steve.


On Wednesday 17 September 2003 09:06, you wrote:
> On Mittwoch, 17. September 2003 08:25, fsanta wrote:
> > > > Anyone know if this scanner will work with SuSE
> > > > 8.2?
> > >
> > > Which Sane-version is installed on stock SuSE 8.2?
> >
> > rpm -q sane
> > sane-1.0.10-36
>
> Should work, but I recommend 1.0.12
>
> > > > I'm confused about the Plustek backend in the
> > > > documentation.
> > >
> > > Why? What can be done to fix this?
> >
> > Well, it's an epson scanner but it's not really. . .
> > Just need to know whether to buy it or not.
>
> Epson is the manufacturer, but they use the same chipset
> like Plustek and as I started with Plustek devices, I
> named the backend Plustek... - it might should be renamed
> to lm983x or merlin to reflect that this chipset is
> upported...
>
> Gerhard