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Date:      Thu, 28 Mar 2002 14:12:26 +0100
From:      Walter Hop <walter@binity.com>
To:        Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Fwd: SANE on FreeBSD: your preference of scanner?
Message-ID:  <200203281358.37932@silver.dt1.binity.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0203272153090.54250-100000@wonkity.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0203272153090.54250-100000@wonkity.com>

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[in reply to Warren Block, Thursday 28 March 2002 06:13]

> After going through this myself very recently, it came down to this:
>
> * Parallel-port scanners: best to avoid.
> * USB: Epson (but *not* the 1250!).
> * SCSI: more choices.

I will go with the Epson then. They are well available around here.

> 4.5-stable.  The only problem I had was that A) on FreeBSD, the device
> is called /dev/uscanner0, not /dev/usbscanner0, and B) xsane coredumped
> once after scanning a preview.  After that, it seemed to work fine.

Your reply was very helpful, thanks! :)

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