Scanning Slides under FC[123]

[Glen Staufer]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 09:44:30 -0600, Brian Fahrlander
<brian at fahrlander.net> wrote:
> 
>     I have a great number of slides slowly decaying in their storage
> area.  I guess I could put'em on a flat-bed and take my chances, but
> since I don't have a scanner now, maybe I shouook into buying a
> slide-scanner.
> 
>     Are these things generally like a regular scanner in terms of
> installation, or do they use funky USB mechanisms?  Anyone have
> experience with something like this?
> 

I have a Minolta Dimage V and use vuescan.  It works like a charm with
only a few problems.

- couldn't get it to work under Linux with USB 1.1.  The scanner would
lock up.  XP handled the USB 1.1 connection just fine.   My desktop
system has USB 2 and the problems went away.
- whenever I scan to a tiff file, the file loads up into Gimp.  I
haven't figured out how to get it to scan to a disk file yet.
- vuescan needs to be run as root.  This is new with my installation
of FC3; under the TEST versions, my normal user account could access
the scanner.  I've tried a mod to the usbscanner script to set the
permissions to allow non-root users to access the scanner, but I don't
have the answer yet.

--Glenn