Using my Digital Research scanner with WINE?

mi6alec · 12-06-2003, 06:46 PM

I have an old generic parallel scanner made by Digital Research (I think they are kind of owned by io-magic now?) that is not supported by SANE. I was able to install the driver using WINE, but I ran a twain capture app to try to test it, and wine kept spitting out something about vxd issues, and the twain gui said that my parallel port was not set up right.

Has anyone successfully used a win-scanner in wine/linux and how?

(MDK 9.2)

Caeda · 12-06-2003, 10:37 PM

You don't use wine for drivers. You use it for programs.

mi6alec · 12-08-2003, 04:45 PM

Yes, I know. I'm using wine to run my twain capture program. It recognizes the scanner, but I get an error from the scanner prog that the parallel port is not set up correctly.

Caeda · 12-08-2003, 04:59 PM

Yes, and you get this error, because. Wine is for programs, not for drivers. So you cant just tell it to use a scanner with the windows scanner drivers. The scanner has to be set up, working, and fully configured to work under linux. Then, you can run a windows program and it just maybe possibly might recognize it.

mi6alec · 12-10-2003, 02:12 PM

The Wine features page lists ASPI Scanner support, how to I tell if this applies to me?

mi6alec · 12-10-2003, 02:38 PM

It can be done... just trying to figure out the deal with my scanner now:
http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~grill/linux.html