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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Scanners, sane and driver support question
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2018 00:35:44
Message-Id: 4e275bf5-6093-26d9-77c1-eb8a44a4befe@gmail.com
1 Howdy,
2
3 I'm on the hunt for a scanner, flatbed type, and have been browsing Ebay
4 and the sane project list of supported devices.  I'm leaning toward HP
5 on this.  While looking at say a ScanJet 6200C, it says the drivers are
6 no longer maintained but complete.  It leads me to this question.  Does
7 that mean they are complete and fixes will no longer be made even if
8 something breaks them and they need a little tweaking OR they are
9 complete and if a bug pops up, they will be fixed as needed but all
10 functions work?  I can see the logic either way on this.  I'm leaning
11 toward the side that if something pops up that requires a little
12 tweaking, it will be done by someone.  The drivers are just feature
13 complete. 
14
15 Does anyone else have the same thinking or is buying one of these
16 scanners a bad idea if the drivers were to break and the scanner was
17 rendered no longer usable? 
18
19 Thanks.
20
21 Dale
22
23 :-)  :-) 

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] Scanners, sane and driver support question Corbin Bird <corbinbird@×××××××.net>
Re: [gentoo-user] Scanners, sane and driver support question "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>
Re: [gentoo-user] Scanners, sane and driver support question Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>