It would be really nice if TWAIN and WINE would work together to support TWAIN compatable drivers under Linux. Surely this would be much easier than every piece of hardware having a Linux driver hacked for it. It would open up the hardware makers to a whole new operating system too. I would hope that all the TWAIN drivers would have a way to run on any OS. TWAIN is supposed to be a standard afterall and standards are supposed to make things easier. I decided this was an interesting idea so I am sending copies of this to various other newsgroups (some of which I am not subscribed to).
I set wine up for the express purpose of seeing if the windoze software would download the pictures from my camera. I had the same problem with the buttons not showing up in PhotoMAX, but I got Irfanview to run successfully. However, it wouldn't acknowledge the existence of the camera, so I posted to the wine newsgroup about it. They said that the function calls required by the TWAIN driver(s) aren't [yet?] implemented.
Regards, Ben