plustek@linuxhacker.org

I have a reliable 1GHz PowerBook and a Canon LiDE, which I would often use in the local
university's library for research, OCR, et cetera.  I would, if I could figure out how
to make the bloody things work together.  I can get picture-perfect images with Canon's
binary drivers (from their website), but have not had such luck with SANE.  

I use Gentoo Linux, and have no issue in the recognition and initialization (that I'm
aware of) of my scanner, but cannot produce images with the correct colors, and sometimes
cannot even scan a picture without vertical lines appearing.  None of these things please
the recipients of my pictures or the OCR software I use to process text, not to mention
that I haven't been able to discover _any_ setting, after hours of tinkering, that will
produce normal returns.

I would accept any advice on the subject, and intend to publish a FAQ on the matter,
if only to quell my frustrations and repair my ego.  To this end, any tips beyond the
'modprobe vendor= product=' information is of interest, and I will happily send debugging
output from my miniature (5 GB) MacOS X 10.2.4 partition for your consideration.

If you're unfamiliar with the problem I'm describing, I'll happily forward more detail;
it seems (from the previously mentioned research) though that there has been some documentation
of this, dating back to the LiDE 20 model.  


Thanks much,
-George