On 8/16/07, Dylan Griffiths <dylang@thock.com> wrote:
> I went to setup a scanner in Linux today. Ubuntu's base install
> includes everything you need, except the BLOB of firmware to be sent to
> the device. Agfa got out of scanning in 2001, so it's a bit trickier to
> get the firmware. Thankfully a gentleman has mirrored a bunch of it here:
> http://www.evonet.be/~bfran/extern/snapscan-firmware/
>
> Enjoy.
Was that the Agfa Snapscan I gave Scott?
The reason I passed it on to him was precisely because of that dopey
binary blob; I contacted Agfa and they aren't willing (able?) to allow
further redistribution of it and I didn't switch to Ubuntu from XP for
things that 'just don't work' out of the box ;)
(I've come to be picky about hardware... If one is looking for a
scanner http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html is a good guide,
though it doesn't mention the firmware issue with some scanners; find
the ones that have "Complete" support and you'll likely be happy...
Like I am with my Canon LiDE 30 that I brought in for show-and-tell to
a meeting a few months ago :)
As it says on http://www.agfa.com/en/co/support/scanners/index.jsp you
can still get those driver files on
http://static.agfa.com/digicam_scanner_drivers/ (though its a bit of a
pain since you have to download a large EXE and then run cabextract as
I recall to grab the BIN file particular to your model... that site
you mentioned is certainly far easier, I will grant you that ;)
See http://snapscan.sourceforge.net/ for more details on firmware
needed for Agfa scanners (as well as some Acer/Benq (aka Vuego,
Scan2Web, ScanPrisa and possibly others), Epson, Guillemot/Hercules
and Mitsubishi ones) BTW.
CK
Received on Thu Aug 16 03:47:52 2007
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