Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 22:16:53 +0930 From: Ian Moore <imoore@picknowl.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD scanners Message-ID: <200408222217.04232.imoore@picknowl.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20040814172955.S12990@wonkity.com> References: <411E9639.2070609@spintech.ro> <20040814172955.S12990@wonkity.com>
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--Boundary-02=_IXJKBdPy0BaM41M Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 09:13, Warren Block wrote: > On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Anton Alin-Adrian wrote: > > EPSON perfection 1670 > > http://www.sane-project.org says it has "good" support for the 1670. > > There's an entry for the printer in /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/uscanner.c > (FreeBSD 4.10), so FreeBSD should detect it as a "uscanner" device. > (Assuming you'll be using USB; can't say how other interfaces work.) > > Based on my experience with the Epson Perfection 1640SU (works fine), > this would be the way I'd look. Epson is better about assisting the > open-source community than many other manufacturers. > > It may be possible to get the Expression 1680 to work, because SANE > says it has "complete" support for it. > > There's no entry for the scanner in uscanner.c, but adding entries isn't > difficult; usbdevs -v will tell you the ID numbers. It's not a > guarantee that it would work, though. > > -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA I have a DiamondView DV650U scanner that is supported by SANE, but I always= =20 assumed that because FBSD doesn't detect it as a uscanner device, just a=20 ugen, it wouldn't work. How would I edit uscanner.c & rebuild whatever to s= ee=20 if it works? I can see a list of supported scanners in the file - do I just add en entry= =20 for mine? usbdevs -v gives the following: =2D- Controller /dev/usb2: addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, UHCI root hub(0x0000),=20 VIA(0x0000), rev 1.00 port 1 addr 2: full speed, self powered, config 1, FlatbedScanner 22(0x20b= 0),=20 Color(0x04a5), rev 1.20 port 2 powered Cheers, Ian GPG Key: http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/imoore/imoore.asc --Boundary-02=_IXJKBdPy0BaM41M Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBKJXIfITqkXhImmIRAkyrAJ4vbMj17zPWXpTwCR9m1CQRJf8ovgCdF35q nADcUGnF59mbxl+hZ04Ml7c= =zUgN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_IXJKBdPy0BaM41M--
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