On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 09:44:30 -0600, Brian Fahrlander <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I have a great number of slides slowly decaying in their storage > area. I guess I could put'em on a flat-bed and take my chances, but > since I don't have a scanner now, maybe I shouook into buying a > slide-scanner. > > Are these things generally like a regular scanner in terms of > installation, or do they use funky USB mechanisms? Anyone have > experience with something like this? > I have a Minolta Dimage V and use vuescan. It works like a charm with only a few problems. - couldn't get it to work under Linux with USB 1.1. The scanner would lock up. XP handled the USB 1.1 connection just fine. My desktop system has USB 2 and the problems went away. - whenever I scan to a tiff file, the file loads up into Gimp. I haven't figured out how to get it to scan to a disk file yet. - vuescan needs to be run as root. This is new with my installation of FC3; under the TEST versions, my normal user account could access the scanner. I've tried a mod to the usbscanner script to set the permissions to allow non-root users to access the scanner, but I don't have the answer yet. --Glenn
