From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 2 00:22:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA19199 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 2 Sep 1996 00:22:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA19166 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 1996 00:22:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA29945; Mon, 2 Sep 1996 09:21:14 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA04853; Mon, 2 Sep 1996 09:21:13 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id JAA22302; Mon, 2 Sep 1996 09:08:32 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199609020708.JAA22302@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Anyone done any SCSI scanner support work? To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 09:08:32 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <373.841639220@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Sep 1, 96 09:40:20 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > I just got my hands on a Mustek 800II/SP flatbed scanner, a really > cheap little SCSI scanner with 800x400 optical resolution (internally > doubled to 800x800 with interpolation). ... > I've looked into PINT a little, ... > For anyone curious enough to look. I also know about XVScan, the > commercial product, but it only supports the HP ScanJet. I personally prefer HPscan, followed Nate's opinion here. ;) Of course, as the name suggests, it's for HP ScanJets only. However, it's in the ports and ready to run. Thus my employer prefered to buy a ScanJet, and thus took me any reason to hack Mustek support for anything. :-) Nate once told me that he and Peter Dufault had PINT almost in the shape to get it working with FreeBSD. I remeber Greg Lehey thinking about Mustek support some day. He told me that it's a very slow device. The HPs are surprisingly fast, but you need a huge amount of memory to deal with 600dpiČ for full size. I've seen `xv' bloating up to 75 MB even for a 300dpiČ A4-sized scan, while doing some image processing. With only 32 MB RAM, this took quite some time. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)