On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 06:52:29AM -0400, linuxnutster@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I've tried several scanners from fedora 12 through fedora 17. The > latest effort was an older H.P. scanjet 3570c. No matter which > scanners I have tried, scanlite, etc... never seem to function > consistently. It's always slow going and when I try to move to > higher resolutions or scan several items in a row, scanlite, sane, > etc... freeze up and stop functioning. Would there be a particular > line of scanners which function flawlessly in linux, or am I > expecting too much? > > Thanks! > > > G. As noted in other responses, the HCL for SANE contains a lot of old/ unavailable (or expensive) models. A few months ago I was looking for one that would "just work" and settled on the Canon Lide 210. It's a small desktop flatbed scanner with (only) a USB interface. I planned to use it on my (then) Centos-5 box, where the version of the various SANE components turned out to be too old. so I had to do some hacking to make it work. but once that was done it's fine. It also appears (only lightly tested) to work out of the box with my Fedora (17 and 19) netbooks. Found at Amazon for, oh, I can't remember, I think it was something like a whole 79 US bucks. It IS USB, and one caveat is that it doesn't work well (or at all) if you use a very long USB cable. The provided cable works, though may not be long enough, depending on where/how youwant to place it. It also works with an extension cable of 4-5 feet. but if you add on a ten foot cable, you can kiss it goodbye. some googling informed me that the max recommended cable lengths for USB devices is based not on signal degradation over the length of the wires, but on signal timing,... the timings are so tight that the speed of light is the causative element for max cable lengths. Fred -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .---- Fred Smith / ( /__ ,__. __ __ / __ : / / / / /__) / / /__) .+' Home: fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx / / (__ (___ (__(_ (___ / :__ 781-438-5471 -------------------------------- Jude 1:24,25 --------------------------------- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
