Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 14:31:45 +0200 (CEST) From: Olaf Hoyer <ohoyer@ohoyer.de> To: Rob <stopspam@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using scanner with FreeBSD. A nightmare! Message-ID: <20040610142919.N99330@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> In-Reply-To: <40C842D3.8090807@users.sourceforge.net> References: <40C7C47D.7060902@users.sourceforge.net> <20040609204934.T35931@wonkity.com> <40C802C3.4010803@users.sourceforge.net> <40C842D3.8090807@users.sourceforge.net>
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On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Rob wrote: > 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. http://www.freebsd.de/archive/de-bsd-questions/de-bsd-questions.200312/0542.html > 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"). IIRC you have to compile GIMP also with the option to use sane, but I'll check it out... HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese)
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