From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 13 23:05:02 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A40CE16A423 for ; Sat, 13 May 2006 23:05:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rpvoland@spamcop.net) Received: from outbound2.mail.tds.net (outbound2.mail.tds.net [216.170.230.92]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E3C643D46 for ; Sat, 13 May 2006 23:04:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rpvoland@spamcop.net) Received: from outaamta01.mail.tds.net (outaamta01.mail.tds.net [216.170.230.31]) by outbound2.mail.tds.net (8.13.6/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k4DN4a9H024989 for ; Sat, 13 May 2006 18:04:46 -0500 Received: from [192.168.0.4] (really [69.129.199.105]) by outaamta01.mail.tds.net with ESMTP id <20060513230435.PBEK9045.outaamta01.mail.tds.net@[192.168.0.4]> for ; Sat, 13 May 2006 18:04:35 -0500 Message-ID: <446665F7.3070200@spamcop.net> Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 18:04:23 -0500 From: Rick Voland User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060418) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: color scanner software for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 23:05:02 -0000 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