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Story:

Few years ago I bought Genius ColorPage Vivid 1200XE scanner and it served me well.  But it was always connected to my Windows machine running XP. And for the time and my needs it was good until I completely switched all my PCs to Linux about a year ago. I installed SANE and it’s frontend  xSane but after connecting a dialog appeared saying something like “Cannot find/read file ccd569.fw”. I wasn’t so eager to find the solution so i left the scanner laying around… Few days ago I needed the services of my old pal and browsed the net for a quick solution instead of RTFM!

Solution:

The solution is quite simple. Download the XP driver and extract files from .exe archive. There will be two .cab files (data1.cab and data2.cab, as I recall) which must be extracted with cab extractor and there you have it, the ccd569.fw file.

If you hate doing the process described above, you can Download ccd569.fw firmware here.

Copy that file with root privileges to your /usr/share/sane/gt68xx/ directory, plugin your scanner and start xsane.
Everything should work fine now.

I presume that the same process follows the setup of other printers supported by SANE. You can find the list of devices here http://www1.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html

Firmware works on all CPU architectures of course.
Take care!

Čitao sam postove po bench forumu danas i setih se ovog divnog programa pisanog u Pithon-u. Nekada je bio problem podesiti drajvere i X serverna Linuksu pogotovu za nove kartice a kamoli za dva ili više ekrana ali eto i danas se nađe po koji slučaj da se drajver ne može pronaći za odgovoarajuću grafičku karticu bez obzira što vam Ubuntu nudi restricted drajvere na tanjiru.

Šta ovaj program radi:
- pronalazi odgovarajući grafički drajver
- skida ga s repozitorija i instalira na vaš sistem zajedno sa svim paketima od kojih je zavistan
- automatski podešava X server

Sve to u dva klika i sve to potpuno besplatno. Program ima svoj GUI i namenjen je novajlijama.

Trentno postoje 2 verzije:

Envy Legacy je za starije distroe tipa: Ubuntu 6.06, 6.10, 7.04 i 7.10, Linux Mint Blanka, Cassandra, Celena i Daryna kao i Debian Etch 4.0.
Podržan je za 32bitne i 64bitne procesorske arhitekture i instalira se duplim klikom na .deb fajl koji možete preuzeti ovde.

EnvyNG je za Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 (nisu izlazile nove verzije verovatno zbog dobre drajverske podrške u 8.10 i još bolje koja nas čeka u 9.10, naravno neki stariji sistemi i kombinacije hardvera ne mogu da podrže ove verzije ubuntua) naravno podržan za oba tipa procesorskih arhitektura.
EnvyNG je podržan u Ubuntuovom glavnom repozitoriju i u slučaju da koristite GNOME ili XFCE okruženje instalira se komandom u terminalu

sudo apt-get install envyng-gtk

A u koliko imade KDE okruženje, komandom:

sudo apt-get install envyng-qt

Može se instalirati i konzolna verzija ali envy vam neće trebati u koliko odlično baratate konzolom.

I na kraju da ne zaboravimo da pomenemo kreatora ovog programa (Sho bi englezi rekli: Meet it’s maker).
To je maladi italijanski programer i linguista Alberto Milone.
“Envy” ili zavist na engleskom se na italijansko kaže INVIDIA

Reference i korisni linkovi:

http://albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html
http://lunapark6.com/envy-easy-way-to-install-nvidia-drivers-in-ubuntu.html