Unsuported Scanner

Rehan

Rehan

Rehan

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Hi,

I have an ancient Visioneer 4800 USB Flatbead Colour scanner. Visioneer only support Windows XP SP1 so I'm trying to get it to work in Ubuntu Linux instead.

I have tried XSane but the scanner is not even listed let alone supported. Is there a way to get it to work (The scanner works perfectly the odd time I need to use it and I don't want to waste money on another one which I will hardly ever use.)

Happy Holidays!
 
got an epson you can have if you pay the postage, going out now so will check later on or mail me at my trust email
 
Hi,

Thanks for your generosity. I'm not sure how much postage would cost fore something so large but I've found that scanners have become amazingly cheap these days. I can pick up a Canon Canoscan Lide 25 Desktop Colour Flatbed Scanner USB 1200 dpi x 2400 dpi for £30.

Does this mean that there is no hope for my scanner at home. The only other thing I can think of is to create a XP SP1 virtual machine using VMWare and use that.

Thanks in advance!
 
Scanners are ridiculously cheap now, there's nothing to them. It really might not be worth messing about and just buy a new one.

On the other hand, http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2005-April/013423.html dates from April 2005 and says that work was underway to develop drivers for that particular chipset, might be easy enough to fit out what else it was branded as. I'd be surprised if an "ancient" scanner couldn't be made to work in some way...
 
Look at the xsane compatibility list? :) I've not used a scanner in Linux before, I have my Epson all-in-one attached to my Windows box.
 
keep with either HP or Epson as those are the ones that will work but as suggested check the sane list, or your distros HCL
 
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