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Re: UMAX Astra 3400 USB scanner compatibility



On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Leonid A. Taouz wrote:

> Hello. Does anyone of you have any Linux experience with USB
> scanners in general and UMAX Astra 3400 in particular? It is not
> listed as compatible in redhat or linux.org hardware compatibility
> lists, but in some online computer shop it is listed as Linux
> compatible. What is really going on? Is sane package enough to make
> it work?

The place to check for scanner compatibility is not in any vendor's
lists, but direct at sane's page - 
http://www.mostang.com/sane/
There are, some scanners that are supported outside sane - primax, for
example, but not many. For those, deja, google and freshmeat might get
you an answer.


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Matan Ziv-Av.                         matan@svgalib.org


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