From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 7 02:01:44 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id CAA18636 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 7 Jan 1995 02:01:44 -0800 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.223.46]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id CAA18615 for ; Sat, 7 Jan 1995 02:01:41 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id CAA25537; Sat, 7 Jan 1995 02:01:22 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: time.cdrom.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: gusw@fub46.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Gunther Schadow) cc: FreeBSD-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: new device driver for scanner In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 07 Jan 95 02:00:14 GMT." <9501070200.AA02167@fub46.zedat.fu-berlin.de> Date: Sat, 07 Jan 1995 02:01:21 -0800 Message-ID: <25536.789472881@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I just uploaded a new device driver for a handy scanner (Genius GS-4500) > to freebsd.cdrom.com:/incoming/FreeBSD/gscanner.tar.z. The driver works > pretty well and it comes with a utility by which you can modify the para- > meters like resolution, timeout value and more. With this driver you can > produce pbm files by just copying from it, i.e. a `cat /dev/gsc0p > my.pbm' > will do the whole job. Hey, that's really great, thanks! [Translation: "Boah! Ist das aber Geil!!"] :-) > for people with other hardware. Will the driver work for other handys? Or > will it work after only few modifications? Please send me your experiences > and I am also willing to help. Will do. Let me see how hard this is to integrate - not very, I hope! :) Jordan