Date: Tue, 23 Jul 96 15:50 MDT From: Gord Matzigkeit <gord@enci.ucalgary.ca> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Subject: Re: PINT scanner device driver Message-ID: <m0uipLR-00060JC@walter> In-Reply-To: Nate Williams's message of Mon, 22 Jul 1996 12:51:53 -0600 (MDT) References: <m0uh9Dz-00060TC@walter> <199607221851.MAA21392@rocky.mt.sri.com>
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Hi! >>>>> Nate Williams writes: NW> Gord Matzigkeit writes: >> Hi, all! >> >> I'm working on a port of the PINT device driver (PINT Is Not Twain) >> to FreeBSD. NW> I did this a while back, and even have my work stashed away some NW> place if you're interested in it. It should still be applicable NW> to pre-2.1.5 as I even kept the patches up to date via CVS, but I NW> deleted them when I upgraded, and would have to get it off backups NW> (which I might not have done). :( Please send them, (or point me to an URL) if you can. I'm having problems, too... maybe ours are different. I'm working with the new PINT betas that Kenneth Stailey has contributed to NetBSD/i386 1.2, so I may have better luck. NW> However, I couldn't get it to work, but in the process of NW> debugging it found the user-mode driver that Richard Tobin wrote NW> (now a port called hpscan) which works with all of the HP scanners NW> I've come in contact with, which happened to be one of those I NW> had. I see that one, too... what scanning software are you using? I've been trying PINT mainly because recent versions of it offer a nice variety of software. NW> In -current, there are no 'assigned' major numbers anymore as we NW> are moving towards DEVFS. For now, I'd steal a major number and NW> see if you can get it working first. That's what I've been doing. Thanks, --Gord -- Gord Matzigkeit | Humbly running the GNU Hurd (0.0 pre-alpha). gord@enci.ucalgary.ca | Jacques Cousteau loved programming in assembler.
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