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Date:      Fri, 4 Sep 2009 06:29:47 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Modulok <modulok@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SANE configuration ... ideas?
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.0909040617410.20591@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <64c038660909040203i586520aauc0299041c1d839d3@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <64c038660909040203i586520aauc0299041c1d839d3@mail.gmail.com>

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On Fri, 4 Sep 2009, Modulok wrote:

> I want a scanner. I found one I like. I then checked the SANE
> 'Supported Scanners' list. My scanner is there:
>
> "Perfection V300 Photo	USB	0x04b8/0x0131	good 	requires DFSG non-free
> esci-interpreter-gt-f720<br>overseas version of the GT-F620"
>
> I'm not sure what the 'requires DFSG...' business is about

Possibly the scanner requires a firmware download.  The Handbook scanner 
example shows how to do that, but I think it's more involved with that 
scanner.  It appears that Luigi Rizzo ported the required software; see

http://www.avasys.jp/cgi-bin/lx/bbs/en/scanner-bbs/hyperbbs.cgi?mode=view;Code=5072

and the link to his port

http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/FreeBSD/20081230-epkowa-port.tgz

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA



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