From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 28 5:12:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from glow.binity.net (glow.binity.net [213.84.201.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E043537B416 for ; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 05:12:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from vscan (glow.dt1.binity.net [172.23.18.1]) by glow.binity.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF48D55BF; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 14:12:11 +0100 (CET) Received: from there (silver.dt1.binity.net [172.23.3.20]) by glow.binity.net (Postfix) with SMTP id C033254D3; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 14:12:07 +0100 (CET) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" From: Walter Hop Message-Id: <200203281358.37932@silver.dt1.binity.net> To: Warren Block Subject: Re: Fwd: SANE on FreeBSD: your preference of scanner? Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 14:12:26 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: by glow.binity.net (amavis-perl-11-sky2) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [in reply to Warren Block, Thursday 28 March 2002 06:13] > After going through this myself very recently, it came down to this: > > * Parallel-port scanners: best to avoid. > * USB: Epson (but *not* the 1250!). > * SCSI: more choices. I will go with the Epson then. They are well available around here. > 4.5-stable. The only problem I had was that A) on FreeBSD, the device > is called /dev/uscanner0, not /dev/usbscanner0, and B) xsane coredumped > once after scanning a preview. After that, it seemed to work fine. Your reply was very helpful, thanks! :) -- Walter Hop | +31 6 24290808 | PGP keyid 0x84813998 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message