Hello all,

I've just received a slide digitiser for my birthday. Just after I'd all-but finished making one too...

lsusb gives me this
ID 115b:3100 Salix Technology Co., Ltd.
but what do I do with that to get a driver, please? So far I've not found anything of any assistance.

I'm very much a non-expert; I've just upgraded the Lenovo netbook to Ubuntu 9.10.

As usual, any/all help gratefully received - I've just searched through for "driver" but not seen anything that looks remotely useful, to me anyway!

Regards Ant

The SANE project might have a driver, then again, they might not. Scanners are one of those devices that's enormously complex to get attached to an operating system. If the driver developer doesn't get some help from the hardware vendor, then it's usually a lost cause.

http://www.sane-project.org/

As an aside, HP imaging products are very Linux friendly. Epson has drivers, but x86 only with binary blobs of very indeterminant quality. The last time I checked, canon was not friendly to Linux.

Hello mpapet,

I've just looked again around the Sane site, can't find anything that looks as if it relates to my slide scanner.

But thankyou, though - regards Ant

Look at the kernel messages when you insert the device.

uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device USB Scanner. (115b:3100)

There may be a problem with resolution. What the device claims to handle and what it actually does from reading messages in the linux-uvc-devel mailing list.

Thankyou jschiwal,

I've not had to delve here before - syslog? dmesg?

Sorry to be obtuse I'm just a user who's become bereft of his family tech support!

Regards Ant, off to bed but I'll be back in the morning...

Hello again,

Kernel log when the slide scanner has been plugged in:

Mar 16 21:34:16 Nettie kernel: [24602.328197] usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
Mar 16 21:34:17 Nettie kernel: [24602.473792] usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Mar 16 21:34:17 Nettie kernel: [24602.475044] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device USB Scanner. (115b:3100)
Mar 16 21:34:17 Nettie kernel: [24602.480487] input: USB Scanner. as
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/input/input12


Guidance is earnestly sought!

Regards Ant

It looks like sane-usb might work for you.

Be sure that sane is installed.

Open a terminal and enter 'sane-find-scanner' and post the results.

Google suggests it needs firmware. I don't actually know if it does or not. http://www.escomposlinux.org/fer_y_juanjo/ccd548.html

I'm guessing you've just upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10 unware that it's out of date or at least unaware that as of April it's no longer supported?

If you can I would start by upgrading to the latest version of Ubuntu. Assuming your netbook has an Internet connection the update manager should be telling you that a new version is available. The scanner might 'just work' with the latest version, or it might work not better than it does with 9.10. I really don't know. But drivers are built in to the kernel and the newer the version of Ubuntu you have the newer the version of the kernel you have.

Hello all,

I installed sane - and xsane - but as far as I can tell it's not supported. Well not much, there's an image there but I cannot get a reasonable output. Can it do that, show a very poor image with no adequate correction available due to partial support? Seems unlikely and I need to read the instructions, such as they are.

I'm not really sure what the difference is between the two, they're rather intertwined as regards files and paperwork...

Yes, I backed it up a few days ago, and that's perfectly adequate, before I upgraded. I was aware of the imminent lack of support but I'm a dinosaur and it seems to me that the longer I wait the better finished the new issue will be! I'll keep on looking, then upgrade again eventually.

Regards Ant

Hello all,

I did a further upgrade to 10.4 (10.04? I forget) but it hasn't helped. I think I need to find a friend with a laptop and use the CD supplied with the scanner...

Thanks again for your interest - Regards Ant