Epson scanners seem to be the best supported.  I bought an Epson Perfection
1240U awhile back, and I love it.  It takes about 10 seconds to scan a full
sheet of paper in full color.  Other scanners that I've tried that with take
well over a minute (cough, canon, cough).  Absolutely zero problems making
it work on my new system too.  I just compiled Sane and Xsane, edited the
epson config file under the sane directory to point to /dev/usb/scanner0,
and loaded the scanner module with:
modprobe scanner vendor=0x04b8 product=0x010b

Those values come from /proc/bus/usb/devices.

The Epson has sweet quality also, much better than Canon or HP of comparable
resolution/price.  Even on windows, the Epson really kicks the crap out of
all other scanners I've tried (and we have a ton floating around at work).

Jay

-----Original Message-----
From: Jon V. Reuter
To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
Sent: 3/3/2002 5:05 PM
Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Scanners

I found this to be a good link:

http://www.buzzard.org.uk/jonathan/scanners-usb.html

I have an Epson Perfection 1650/Photo working great
under RedHat 7.2 (with upgraded kernel 2.4.17).

Jon Reuter


Terry Houle wrote:

> I am looking for a USB scanner that will be as universally supported
across
> multiple platforms.  I would like to run under Red Hat 7.2 and Suse
7.3 as
> well as Mac and Windows.
> I checked the Suse and Red Hat web sites for compatibility and RH
makes it
> difficult cause you have to sort by manufacturer which I did and Suse
looked
> like Agfa was the recommended. I would like it to do photos as well as
other
> things and color.
>
> Anyone have some thoughts and or other places to look.
>
> Terry Houle
>
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