Re: Has anyone used the Canon FS2710 film scanner with a Solaris box?

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From: Nicholas J Brealey
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 00:00

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cdewick@lios.apana.org.au (Craig Dewick) writes:

> I'm looking at buying a film scanner that can handle 35 mm negative strips
> and APS cartridges. My top-of-the-list choice at the moment is Canon's
> FS-2710 scanner, but in typical Mac- and Wintel-centric fashion there is no
> mention made of whether there is any support provided by Canon (in the form
> of device drivers, etc.) for people using machines which run *nix in
> preference to Windoze or Mac/OS.
> 

Take a look at the beta version of the SANE backend for the Nikon Coolscan III
at http://andreas.rick.free.fr/.

Also look at http://www.mostang.com/sane/ for more genral information. It 
mentions the CanoScan 2700F - I don't know if this is compatible.

SANE and GIMP are a great combination.

I have Nikon Coolscan III waiting for me at the shipping compaines depot.
Unfortunately installing the generic SCSI driver (scg) on my Solaris 7 x86
system makes the system unbootable. I have had no problems with the scg driver
on a SPARC station 5 with Solaris 2.5.1 though.

Nick

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From: Nicholas J Brealey <nick@orpwood.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Has anyone used the Canon FS2710 film scanner with a Solaris box?
Date: 1999/09/10
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