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How do you use a scanner Minolta Scan Dual III with Mandrake Linux 9.0?

 
 

Lucky me... I bought a scanner! A nice little slide and negative scanner from Minolta, 2800pdi, going for 34000 yens. I worked fine under windows, but obviously, when I plugged it into my mandrake 9.0, nothing came out: it was too new for my kernel. As usual, I did my search on google, and found this page that gave me the trick:

• check /proc/bus/usb/devices for line like

  P: Vendor=0686 ProdID=400d Rev= 0.01
S: Manufacturer=MINOLTA
S: Product=DiMAGE Scan Dual3

  and deduce the vendor and product ID.
• Add the line

  options scanner vendor=0x#### product=0x****

  into the file /etc/modules.conf where #### is the vendor ID and **** the product ID. So in my case the exact line is

  options scanner vendor=0x0686 product=0x400d

• restart the kernel scanner module:

  rmmod scanner; modprobe scanner

• stop the scanner, restart it, and it should work. In my case the /proc/bus/usb/devices had a line like

  I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=usbscanner

  (if you have "Driver=(none)", there is a problem) and the device got attached to /dev/usb/scanner0 as show in /var/log/messages

I now had to find some software to scan. Sane is the free software, but I was told it wasn't great for what I wanted to do. On the other hand VueScan worked perfectly well, and it's only 60$...