From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 19 23: 6:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69AB314C0A for ; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 23:06:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id PAA22224; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 15:33:38 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id PAA45528; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 15:33:37 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19990420153336.A45522@lemis.com> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 15:33:36 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Luigi Rizzo Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Artec AS6E (was: Trying to get an HP Scanjet to work (again).) References: <3743.924512598@zippy.cdrom.com> <199904190949.LAA19976@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199904190949.LAA19976@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>; from Luigi Rizzo on Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 11:49:39AM +0200 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 19 April 1999 at 11:49:39 +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote: >> My fault for not plugging it in for quite some time, but it now >> appears that CAM has broken support for my Scanjet 4P. I have a copy > > i reported this some time ago when i tried to use hpscanpbm and some > other home-grown thing for controlling my scanjet 5p on 3.1. > > "fortunately" my scanjet seems not to work anymore (i have no idea > if it is having firmware problems or servo problems or what...) so > i had to replace it with a parallel port Artec AS6E for which i > managed to write a control program at > > http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ppscan990326.c > > the AS6E is very cheap, kind of poor quality but its data sheets are > available... This looks great. I'm surprised nobody else has made any comments. How well does it work? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message