Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 11:06:33 -0500 From: Jonathan <j.e.drews@worldnet.att.net> To: Dave Bradshaw <dave_bradshaw@blueyonder.co.uk>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Scanner for 4.8 Message-ID: <200309061106.33035.j.e.drews@worldnet.att.net> In-Reply-To: <1062862068.641.18.camel@saturn.bradshaw.home> References: <1062862068.641.18.camel@saturn.bradshaw.home>
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On Saturday 06 September 2003 10:27 am, Dave Bradshaw wrote: > Dear All, > > Can anyone recommend a scanner that works well on 4.8. Hi Dave: Epson 640 U Perfection works well on my FreeBSD 4.8. Look in man 5 sane-epson, man 5 sane-hp, etc. for a complete list of scanners supported on FreeBSD. Also take a look at Jonathan Buzzard's page on USB scanners or SANE itself, before you go out and buy one. http://www.buzzard.org.uk/jonathan/scanners-usb.html http://www.mostang.com/sane/ To setup your USB scanner: 1) Install /usr/ports/graphics/sane-backends/ and /usr/ports/graphics/xsane/ 2) run: # sane-find-scanner as root. In the case of my Epson, it found /dev/uscanner0 3) For an Epson scanner edit /usr/local/etc/sane.d/epson.conf and put in the device that sane-find-scanner discovered. In my case, the epson.conf file looks like so. Be sure to comment out the line "scsi EPSON". # epson.conf # # here are some examples for how to configure the EPSON backend # # SCSI scanner: #scsi EPSON # # Parallel port scanner: #pio 0x278 #pio 0x378 #pio 0x3BC # # USB scanner - only enable this if you have an EPSON scanner. It could # otherwise block your non-EPSON scanner from being # recognized. # Depending on your distribution, you may need either the # first or the second entry. #usb /dev/usbscanner0 #usb /dev/usb/scanner0 usb /dev/uscanner0 4) Start Xsane and begin scanning. Works like a charm. Kind regards Jonathan
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