aRTee Posted May 11, 2003 Report Share Posted May 11, 2003 Hmmm, I think this may be normal. My epson 1660 is recognised as such (I think I selected the scannertype manually), but in xsane shows up as GT-8300 or so.. Must have to do with the drivername or something; in my case everything works fine, including the transparency light that switches on when I select 'transparency' instead of 'flatbed' mode. So don't worry about it. In any case, I wouldn't go through installing anything new/else for that. Note that there is no such thing as a GT-8300.. Wait!! just did a websearch (google) for: GT-8300 scanner and the first hit shows this (didn't even bother to open the page): VID PID Scanner ---- - 03f0 0101 HP 4100 03f0 0201 HP 6200 ... 1260 (GT-7300) 04b8 011e Epson Perfection 1660 (GT-8300) 04b8 0801 ... So don't update or anything, this is fine. Happy scanning! ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigjohn Posted May 12, 2003 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2003 Ok aRTee, I'll just leave it at that for the moment. It just means that I'l probably have to go through all this again, when my dvd powerpack of 9.1 finally turn up. I wonder if it will be worth configuring it as a GT7000 (if that's on the mandrake supported hardware list - I haven't checked yet!) directly since it's such a nuisance to do it as a 1260? regards John :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted May 12, 2003 Report Share Posted May 12, 2003 GT7000 is not on the list, nor is GT8300 (1660), AFAICS,... The GT+number is maybe some id string of the scanner internal hardware/control chip or so? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigjohn Posted May 17, 2003 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2003 Just too finish this off, Two days ago, my 9.1 dvd powerpack arrived from mandrakesoft in Paris. So I install, make a cock up, re-install, make another cock up, re-install and "bob's your uncle". virtually everything that i want is installed first time (some of the games I like had to be added) but it's just up to customisation now. Even the scanner was detected and the correct versions of sane/xsane installed. All that hassle that I used to have to go through to install my M$ fonts (I prefer Tahoma) installed through the font installer via KDE. The only thing I couldn't fathom, was that I thought that the powerpack had Star Office instead of open office, but it seems that is only the "pro suite". Not that that's a problem. So the answer to my earlier scanner problem all along was just wait for the f****** disc to turn up and not to be so damned impatient! Thanks for all the assistance everyone! regards John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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