Has anyone ever made scanning work?

[Bill Davidsen]

Frank Cox wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:13:11 -0400
> Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> wrote:
>
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>> Has anyone ever made scanning actually work with FC6 or FC7?
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> Yes.
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>> I have been 
>> trying in spare time for months, and bought a brand new Epson perfection 
>> 2480 Photo scanner because it was supported.
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> No idea about that one, but the Epson GT-8300 flatbed scanner "just works".
>
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Define "just works," what is your firmware line in snapscan.conf? This 
would just work if I could get xsane to stop trying to improve it and 
use it as is. Do you have/use a firmware update, and if not how did you 
ask it not to try to do one?

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