although i have been made aware of linux native proprietary drivers for film scanners, i would like to know whether running nikon scan on wine has ever been attempted i never attemped to run drivers on wine; is that possible at all? thanks francesco pietra
> although i have been made aware of linux native proprietary drivers for film > scanners, i would like to know whether running nikon scan on wine has ever > been attempted > > i never attemped to run drivers on wine; is that possible at all? > > thanks > francesco pietra >No, drivers are not possible with wine. If linux does not support your hardware than wine will not support it either... John
Francesco Pietra wrote:> i never attemped to run drivers on wine; is that possible at all?I think someone made USB scanner / imaging drivers for Windows run under Wine recently. The approach assumed (AFAICR) that the driver worked in a specific way, however all Windows drivers seemed to do so at the time. I may be incorrect, but I think it's true... I'd search the wine-devel archives if I were you (and USB applies)...