Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 20:15:31 +0900 From: Rob <stopspam@users.sourceforge.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using scanner with FreeBSD. A nightmare! Message-ID: <40C842D3.8090807@users.sourceforge.net> In-Reply-To: <20040610115602.Q99152@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> References: <40C7C47D.7060902@users.sourceforge.net> <20040609204934.T35931@wonkity.com> <200406100716.55520.4711@chello.at> <40C802C3.4010803@users.sourceforge.net> <20040610115602.Q99152@gaff.hhhr.ision.net>
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Olaf Hoyer wrote: > > Just checked some archives to get the grasp... > Well, on the german lists we had this discussion about scanner > compatibility some time ago, and back then I tested our Scanner @work > (also a 5200c) with my notebook. Could you give me a pointer to this discussion? Since I do understand German, I could learn from this without reinventing the wheel. > I think the warm-up of the device is a bit slow, before it actually will > do something. I find it so terribly slow in comparison to its operation on Windows, that I think it's not the HP scanner, but the software, or the way I use the software. Also the quality is miserable. Although that is probably my mistake, I use the software with its default settings. It should be strange that the defaults result in miserably low quality pictures.... I have changed the scan from "Lineart" to "Color"; this allows me to have a long, long coffee break until the scan is finished! ------------ One more thing I do not understand: I always have to give "hp:/dev/uscanner0" as the device parameter to the scanner command. When I do "xscanimage", I get [xscanimage] No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different, check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by sane-find-scanner (if appropriate). Please read the documentation which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages). But "xscanimage hp:/dev/uscanner0" works fine. However, "sane-find-scanner", returns the scanner, vendor, product etc: found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0, product=0x0401) at /dev/uscanner0 And "scanimage -L" returns: No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different, check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages). Is there a configuration file where I should define the default scanner, i.e. "hp:/dev/uscanner0" ? A side effect of this is (I believe), that sane doesn't work as a plugin with Gimp. I think Gimp first tries to probe the scanner devices, it doesn't get any, so the plugin doesn't work. Or something like this. (Yes, I have compiled sane with "WITH_GIMP=yes"). Thanks for the help. Rob.
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