# Re: Nikon Coolscan / LS2000?

From: Fred Willingham (fcw@worldpath.net)
Date: Sat Jul 08 2000 - 08:31:07 PDT

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  It works fine for me.

  I have used kernel 2.2.15 and 2.4.0 test 2 with no problems.

  I use his patched version of SANE.

  -F
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: <jgreer@ipopros.com>
  To: <sane-devel@mostang.com>
  Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 9:55 PM
  Subject: Re: Nikon Coolscan / LS2000?

  >
  > I'm having the exact same problems with an LS30. I sent an email out to
  > andreas.rick@free.fr, but go no response. I figure he's probably out on
  > vacation and enjoying himself.
  >
  > Anyway, I've tried 1.0.2 patched to recognize the device, the
  > patched version (sane-1.0.2_coolscan043.tgz) and a cvs checkout version,
  > all without success.
  >
  > All three seem to be able to communicate with the scanner and they
  > position the negative when you press the 'preview' or 'scan' buttons, but
  > the scanfiles come out extremely tiny and in preview mode, the preview
  > area remains white.
  >
  > I've also tried using the -T option to scanimage and it says something
  > about an 'unexpected end of file'.
  >
  > I'd be interested to hear if anyone has had luck getting any newer
  > coolscans to work with any version of SANE.
  >
  > --john
  >
  > On 7 Jul 2000 dave-mlist@bfnet.com wrote:
  >
  > > Red Hat 6.2, Kernel 2.2.14
  > >
  > > I have tried several ways to use SANE to scan with the Nikon LS2000,
  > > and none of them have worked. I'm looking for some advice as to where
  > > to go next. I have never tried this scanner with a windows machine.
  > >
  > > I tried to FTP the sane backend for the coolscan at
  > > http://www.sema.be/coolscan/ but there doesn't appear to be any FTP
  > > access.
  > >
  > > I tried the modified backend at
  > > http://andreas.rick.free.fr/sane/coolscan.html and was actually able
  > > to download sane-1.0.2_coolscan043.tgz. This compiled fine, but the
  > > preview and scan buttons don't seem to do anything. I tried loading
  > > the film both before and after hitting the buttons.
  > >
  > > I tried vuescan at http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html, and VueScan 5.9t53
  > > for Linux. This appears to be more functional than SANE: at least the
  > > abort and film eject buttons work fine. I was actually able to get a
  > > sort of image from the scan, but it took a really long time, and it
  > > did not look very clean. I was not able to save the image or control
  > > which image on the negative to scan. This may be because of the trial
  > > (unregistered) status of the software.
  > >
  > > Does anybody out there have an LS2000 working with SANE?
  > >
  > > Dave
  > >
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