<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 6:08 AM, Adam Tauno Williams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:awilliam@whitemice.org">awilliam@whitemice.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 00:54 -0400, Raymond McLaughlin wrote:<br>
> <a href="mailto:peyeps@iserv.net">peyeps@iserv.net</a> wrote:<br>
> > Stupid question, regarding Canon scanner. Has anyone ever tried to<br>
> > install the Canon driver under Wine or Crossover Office? Use Epson<br>
> > myself, so don't know personally how to make the Canon work.<br>
> Nooooooooo!<br>
> Wine, and by extension Crossover Office, provides a run-time work-alike<br>
> environment for Windows *applications*. Trying to load device drivers in<br>
> it ... would be futile at best.<br>
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</div>Mmmm, I don't know about that. Wine has had hooks into at least the HAL<br>
D-Bus for awhile now - so it is aware of device connect / disconnect<br>
events. And given that most USB 'drivers' are user space... seems like<br>
support USB devices is within the realm of possibility [one wonder why<br>
else they would subscribe to HAL].<br>
<br>
Still think just making SANE work is a better idea.<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div>Agreed. And it mostly does. My scanner <br>is 10 years old, and probably just fell through<br>the cracks. After contacting the scanner driver<br>people I suspect it will be eventually be running<br>
like a well oiled machine again for another ten<br>years. <br><br>For 11 years or more I ran MKS Toolkit on a<br>machine running windoz 98SE. The opposite<br>approach of running windoz under Linux, it<br>runs a Linux-like package under windoz. With<br>
that and samba I can essentially pretend I'm<br>on a Linux machine, and yet run any of the<br>old hardware and packages I have that only<br>run under windoz. It's simply the path of least<br>resistance. I actually use my machines to <br>
get some things done, so while I largely <br>despise windoz and M$, I'm not a purest<br>where it comes to getting something done.<br>Easiest and fastest rules, given comparable<br>results.<br><br>But having scanners and printers that run<br>
fine under Linux, that leaves only the<br>occasional odd-ball gadget now that only<br>comes with drivers for Vista or some other <br>windoz version. For now, I keep the windoz <br>machine in another room - it smells a little - and <br>
just use a samba link.<br><br> -- Bob<br><br><br><br><br></div></div>