From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 5 10:37:13 2003 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 B396F37B401 for ; Sat, 5 Jul 2003 10:37:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.rdstm.ro (mail.rdstm.ro [193.231.233.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5427F43FBF for ; Sat, 5 Jul 2003 10:37:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from aanton@reversedhell.net) Received: from reversedhell.net (casa_auto [81.196.32.25]) by mail.rdstm.ro (8.12.9/8.12.1) with ESMTP id h65HbB8g003401 for ; Sat, 5 Jul 2003 20:37:11 +0300 Message-ID: <3F051381.8050001@reversedhell.net> Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2003 08:41:21 +0300 From: Alin-Adrian Anton User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030606 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, ro MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: parallel scanner support 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: Sat, 05 Jul 2003 17:37:14 -0000 Hi folks, I have a Colorpage Vivid Pro II Film scanner and I saw on the SANE project's website that it is fully supported and that it is stable. It is reported as OP9636T/12000T, and supported by the plustek backened. It is a parallel port scanner. So I instaleld /usr/ports/graphics/xsane and that's all. Everything worked well, but I am a little confused. On the plustek site they say that for parallel port scanners there is need for downloading a kernel module. As far as I can see, that is a Linux kernel module. I would like to know if installing xsane from ports (which installs it's dependencies) also installs a port of that kernel module. Or is there a port for the kernel module? What should I do? Or don't I need to install a kernel module (there is no /dev/pt_drv in my /dev). Of course I tried rebooting hoping it will load something magically, but that never works. The configuration file is present. If anyone knows if it is possible to use parallel port scanners on freebsd please help me out a bit, on what do I have to do next. I can't find any pt_drv file as the module is labeled. Sorry for previous mail, it is unbelivable how i pressed the wrong button (send, instead of minimize). Best regards, Alin Anton.