Drivers for a stand alone slide scanner

[tomdocherty72]

Hi,

This is my first post on the forum. I have a stand alone Easypix film and slide scanner that i used with Microsoft XP before switching to Linux Mint. I love Linux but am frustrated by the lack of drivers for the scanner. Can anyone send me in the right direction to find one?

[remoulder]

If the scanner doesn't have a linux driver, you need to ask the manufacturer for one. However have you tried connecting it and seeing if the system recognizes it? When it is connected, what is the output of lsusb if it's a usb connection, otherwise look at the output of dmesg after connecting?

[Briand18]

I shall watch this post with interest. I have a Pacific Image Primefilm 1800 scanner, and would love to run it in Mint. But the firm offer no Linux drivers, only PC and Mac. I have tried loading the Windows Driver using Wine, but it only gets so far, then stops. No Sane or Xsane bits even recognise it is there.

Any thoughts ?

[tomdocherty72]

If the scanner doesn't have a linux driver, you need to ask the manufacturer for one. However have you tried connecting it and seeing if the system recognizes it? When it is connected, what is the output of lsusb if it's a usb connection, otherwise look at the output of dmesg after connecting?

Thanks for your suggestions. Doesn't help me though - I am a 50-something technophobe talked into using Linux OS by my son! I like it by the way - except the problems i have attaching anything to it that remotely resembles something designed to run onW##**ws! Please translate = what is the output of lsusb if it's a usb connection, otherwise look at the output of dmesg after connecting and - how do I do that?

Thanks

Tom

[rich_roast]

If it's a scanner that you plug into the usb socket, open a terminal (mintMenu -> accessories -> terminal, or alt+ctrl+T on the desktop should also work), and type in

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lsusb

. The command prints out information on all the devices that you have plugged into your usb sockets, which is useful to members who would like to help. You will need to copy and paste it in this forum. For that the easiest method is just to highlight all the output with your mouse, and then point your mouse pointer in the text box on the forum and middle-click.

The advice about

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dmesg

is in a similar vein; the member is suggesting that you plug in the scanner, and then after that type that command into the terminal. dmesg is a system log; specifically it keeps track of messages your kernel is sending. It might tell us about any problems with hotplugging. If posting

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dmesg

output here, though, please use

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dmesg | tail

-- we only want the most recent bit (the output of dmesg can be very long winded). That character in the middle is called a pipe; it might be hanging around with tilde (~) on your keyboard or it might be hanging around with \. If all else fails just copy and paste the code out of the codebox in terminal.

[rich_roast]

In other news, lmintnewb's post probably will be better received in open chat than in the support forums. I have moved it to a newly titled thread in open chat, here.