Hi, I'm using the Umax Astra 610p scanner (parallel port scanner). Unfortunately, it is not supported by sane as Umax is not publishing specs. Searching on google I found out that some people got it working using vmware but nobody could get it working with wine. That is surprising me because people seem to get lots of complicated windows applications working but not a small scanner application. Is the problem the way the scanner software accesses the parallel port or what is the problem? Nils
Nils Ellendt <unemployable@sozialethisch-desorientiert.de> wrote: : Hi, : I'm using the Umax Astra 610p scanner (parallel port scanner). : Unfortunately, it is not supported by sane as Umax is not publishing specs. : Searching on google I found out that some people got it working using : vmware but nobody could get it working with wine. : That is surprising me because people seem to get lots of complicated : windows applications working but not a small scanner application. Is the : problem the way the scanner software accesses the parallel port or what is : the problem? Reading some old messages from that group woul have helped you. If the scanner installs some VXD to do the hardware access, you are lost. If your scanner runs with Win31, you can try to install and with proper configured port access, it might work. So might do a NT40 driver. Bye -- Uwe Bonnes bon@elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de Institut fuer Kernphysik Schlossgartenstrasse 9 64289 Darmstadt --------- Tel. 06151 162516 -------- Fax. 06151 164321 ----------
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 12:46:50PM +0200, Nils Ellendt wrote:> Hi, > > I'm using the Umax Astra 610p scanner (parallel port scanner). > Unfortunately, it is not supported by sane as Umax is not publishing specs. > Searching on google I found out that some people got it working using > vmware but nobody could get it working with wine. > That is surprising me because people seem to get lots of complicated > windows applications working but not a small scanner application. Is the > problem the way the scanner software accesses the parallel port or what is > the problem?I guess the problem is that wine doesn't emulate the api those drivers hook into, those apps are usually access the parralel port not directly, but via a driver and as you should already know wine can't yet run windows drivers and is not expected to be able to with the current development planning. I know some older scanners that access the hardware directly via the scanner application so those could work if someone hacks some simpel direct parralel port access. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 240 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20011016/2deee079/attachment.pgp
On 16 Oct 2001 11:34:54 GMT, Uwe Bonnes <bon@elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de> wrote: <snip>>configured port access, it might work. So might do a NT40 driver.I was not aware that there is any support for NT drivers in Wine...Did you actually succeed using one ? Gerard