From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Apr 21 14:08:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA07418 for ports-outgoing; Sun, 21 Apr 1996 14:08:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.52]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA07412 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 1996 14:08:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from richardc@localhost) by soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA09197; Sun, 21 Apr 1996 14:07:34 -0700 Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 14:07:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Richard Chang To: Joerg Wunsch cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hpscan In-Reply-To: <199604212051.WAA15785@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 21 Apr 1996, J Wunsch wrote: > As Richard Chang wrote: > > > > Is it really using /dev/scanner? I thought the FreeBSD port were > > > using /dev/pt0 (the `processor target' device). Try symlinking this > > > one to /dev/scanner, just in case. > > > > Hmmm, it doesn't say in the README anywhere. > > Quite possible. The README is most likely not much changed from the > original one. The author has been using it against the uk0 device. I thought he meant the uk0 device... > > > Needless to say, you need to have a kernel with a pt0 device. > > > > Oh okay... I wonder how well will the hpscan program work... > > It works well for me, though the gamma correction seems to be buggy > for my 16 bpp display. Since it does only affect the preview, i > haven't tried to correct this. Hmmm, what does it do exactly? does it just scan and what formats will it save in? Is there anything similar to Adobe Photoshop for editing the picture? Richard