From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 17 17:49:49 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CEE71065671 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:49:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bill@ayn.mi.celestial.com) Received: from ayn.mi.celestial.com (hayek.celestial.com [192.136.111.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E59068FC18 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:49:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bill@ayn.mi.celestial.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ayn.mi.celestial.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4015C68665308; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:49:48 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mi.celestial.com Received: from ayn.mi.celestial.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ayn.mi.celestial.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id gz2Oz0uAlnMg; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:49:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by ayn.mi.celestial.com (Postfix, from userid 203) id 250B06860A006; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:49:48 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:49:48 -0700 From: Bill Campbell To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080317174948.GA12884@ayn.mi.celestial.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 OpenPKG/2.5 Subject: Re: Scanners, emulators and VueScan X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd@celestial.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:49:49 -0000 On Mon, Mar 17, 2008, Isaac Mushinsky wrote: >Problem: I have a film scanner whose sane support is somewhat incomplete. >There is a commercial piece of software called VueScan, which reportedly can >do what I need. It can be had as either a Windows or Linux binary. It does >not use sane on Linux, but apparently implements its own set of drivers via >libusb. Rather than install another OS and boot into it to do the scanning, >I was wondering if I can make it work with any kind of emulation. If I do >not load uscanner, my scanner will appear just as a ugen device. Can I then >have the device passed through to VueScan and usable by it with: You might want to contact Ed Hamrick , author of VueScan. He has been very helpful to me when I had questions about it. I got VueScan for Mac OS X Tiger when I had to replace a bad hard drive on my Mac Mini and the HP drivers I had been using were no longer available (let's not go into backups shall we :-). The support has been good, and it does what I need. Bill -- INTERNET: bill@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. -- Frederick Douglass.