From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 10 11:15:32 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7B1916A4CE for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 11:15:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from auk1.snu.ac.kr (auk1.snu.ac.kr [147.46.100.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6676643D39 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 11:15:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stopspam@users.sourceforge.net) Received: from [147.46.44.181] (stopspam@users.sourceforge.net) by auk1.snu.ac.kr (Terrace Internet Messaging Server) with ESMTP id 2004061020:15:16:672118.24301.2734021552 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 20:15:16 +0900 (KST) Message-ID: <40C842D3.8090807@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 20:15:31 +0900 From: Rob User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040507 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <40C7C47D.7060902@users.sourceforge.net> <20040609204934.T35931@wonkity.com> <200406100716.55520.4711@chello.at> <40C802C3.4010803@users.sourceforge.net> <20040610115602.Q99152@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> In-Reply-To: <20040610115602.Q99152@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-TERRACE-SPAMMARK: NO (SR:14.05) (by Terrace) Subject: Re: Using scanner with FreeBSD. A nightmare! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 11:15:33 -0000 Olaf Hoyer wrote: > > Just checked some archives to get the grasp... > Well, on the german lists we had this discussion about scanner > compatibility some time ago, and back then I tested our Scanner @work > (also a 5200c) with my notebook. Could you give me a pointer to this discussion? Since I do understand German, I could learn from this without reinventing the wheel. > I think the warm-up of the device is a bit slow, before it actually will > do something. I find it so terribly slow in comparison to its operation on Windows, that I think it's not the HP scanner, but the software, or the way I use the software. Also the quality is miserable. Although that is probably my mistake, I use the software with its default settings. It should be strange that the defaults result in miserably low quality pictures.... I have changed the scan from "Lineart" to "Color"; this allows me to have a long, long coffee break until the scan is finished! ------------ One more thing I do not understand: I always have to give "hp:/dev/uscanner0" as the device parameter to the scanner command. When I do "xscanimage", I get [xscanimage] No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different, check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by sane-find-scanner (if appropriate). Please read the documentation which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages). But "xscanimage hp:/dev/uscanner0" works fine. However, "sane-find-scanner", returns the scanner, vendor, product etc: found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0, product=0x0401) at /dev/uscanner0 And "scanimage -L" returns: No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different, check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages). Is there a configuration file where I should define the default scanner, i.e. "hp:/dev/uscanner0" ? A side effect of this is (I believe), that sane doesn't work as a plugin with Gimp. I think Gimp first tries to probe the scanner devices, it doesn't get any, so the plugin doesn't work. Or something like this. (Yes, I have compiled sane with "WITH_GIMP=yes"). Thanks for the help. Rob.