From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 10 12:31:45 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 F36C816A4CE for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 12:31:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gaff.hhhr.ision.net (gaff.hhhr.ision.net [195.180.9.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91FD143D49 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 12:31:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ohoyer@ohoyer.de) Received: from gaff.hhhr.ision.net (ohoyer@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gaff.hhhr.ision.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i5ACVk7P099523; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 14:31:46 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ohoyer@ohoyer.de) Received: from localhost (ohoyer@localhost)i5ACVjan099520; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 14:31:46 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ohoyer@ohoyer.de) X-Authentication-Warning: gaff.hhhr.ision.net: ohoyer owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 14:31:45 +0200 (CEST) From: Olaf Hoyer Sender: ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net To: Rob In-Reply-To: <40C842D3.8090807@users.sourceforge.net> Message-ID: <20040610142919.N99330@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> References: <40C7C47D.7060902@users.sourceforge.net> <20040609204934.T35931@wonkity.com> <40C802C3.4010803@users.sourceforge.net> <40C842D3.8090807@users.sourceforge.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 12:31:45 -0000 On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Rob wrote: > 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. http://www.freebsd.de/archive/de-bsd-questions/de-bsd-questions.200312/0542.html > 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"). IIRC you have to compile GIMP also with the option to use sane, but I'll check it out... HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese)