From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 20 07:09:48 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 815C416A4CE for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 07:09:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.tellme3times.com (dsl-yul-102.e-scape.net [209.47.218.102]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 978A843D2F for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 07:09:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@tellme3times.com) Received: from tellme3times.com (unknown [192.168.7.29]) by mail.tellme3times.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7060414C; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 10:06:44 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <40853002.7010509@tellme3times.com> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 10:13:22 -0400 From: Chris User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (X11/20040413) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mattias Schlenker References: <408524AC.7040506@schlenker-webdesign.de> <40852A1F.2060605@tellme3times.com> <40852B78.3060304@schlenker-webdesign.de> In-Reply-To: <40852B78.3060304@schlenker-webdesign.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: device uscanner in GENERIC? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 14:09:48 -0000 I like to understand. I did nothing to get the scanner to work with root. I agree with you, I use FreeBSD as a desktop systema as well as a server, making it as simple as possible will help newbies and omprove the FreeBSD experiance. I have had some printing issues with a parallel printer (CUPS and LPD did not work as easily as 4.x) and a few sound issues namely with KDE 3.2, the scanner has worked without a flaw. It's a cheapo Epson Perfection 1260. I had an HP a while back which I could not get to work, that one cost a lot more, but this $100 piece of gold of a scanner is slow but sure. Since you did not mention any details I did not understand where you were having problems. I had to change the permissions to let my kids access to it....otherwise it was plug and play. Chris Mattias Schlenker wrote: > Chris wrote: > >> I did not have to recompile my kernel for my USB scanner to work and >> I am using uscanner. >> 5.1 5.2 both worked. >> > > This may be... But many -- especially many cheap -- scanners nowadays > work better with ugen/libusb or even just work with ugen/libusb. So > removing "device uscanner" from GENERIC would mean that someone like > you who *wants* to use uscanner has to load uscanner.ko, which is far > less work than recompiling the kernel. > > In 4.x it worked perfectly for all sides. Removing "device uscanner" > from GENERIC would result in a situation that is more close to the > situation with 4.x than the situation today is. > > Thanks > Matt >