Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 18:04:23 -0500 From: Rick Voland <rpvoland@spamcop.net> To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: color scanner software for FreeBSD Message-ID: <446665F7.3070200@spamcop.net>
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This item is a long-term feature suggestion. One item I wish would work for FreeBSD is some inexpensive software for color film or flatbed scanners. I have SANE installed and working, but it has limited scanner hardware support compared to the inexpensive ($40) Vuescan which supports "more than 500 scanners and 209 digital camera raw files under Linux." http://www.hamrick.com/ I was able to get Vuescan 8.3.37 to run under FreeBSD 6.0 using linux_base-8-8.0_14 (Redhat 8) by installing libusb. Vuescan runs fine, but doesn't see the scanner devices. (Vuescan runs fine and sees scanners on this same computer rebooted in Redhat 9, so it's not a hardware issue.) I have linprocfs mounted, but I don't see anything that looked like /dev/pass4 where I've got my SCSI scanner. I also looked for sd* devices. I'm just offering this as a long-term suggestion in response to Scott Long's recent comments about Desktop FreeBSD. http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/06/05/13/0740227.shtml Thanks much for what already works. Best wishes, Rick Voland rpvoland@spamcop.net
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