Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 14:55:48 +0200 (MEST) From: Paul Everlund <tdv94ped@cs.umu.se> To: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Epson Perfection 1260 and SANE Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0304151453170.15053-100000@kvist.cs.umu.se> In-Reply-To: <87smudj6mc.fsf@strauser.com>
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On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2003-02-24T22:31:50Z, Paul Everlund <tdv94ped@cs.umu.se> writes: > > > When issued sane-find-scanner it finds it, telling me it's on > > libusb:/dev/usb0:/dev/ugen0. > > That probably means that FreeBSD isn't identifying it correctly. IIRC, USB > scanners should show up as /dev/uscanner[0-...] > > > It also seems to use the backend Plustek, > > I haven't used a 1260, but my Epson Perfection 1240 used the Epson backend. > > > If you who reads this managed to make it work, can you please give me some > > hints? > > When I bought my 1240, FreeBSD didn't recognize it yet. It was very easy to > hack the kernel's USB files (cd /usr/src/sys; grep -ri 'perfection'; vi ...) > to add in the 1240's USB ID numbers (gleaned from dmesg output). You may > have to do the same for your 1260. > -- > Kirk Strauser > In Googlis non est, ergo non est. Thanks for your reply! The scanner is working ok now, in 4.8. It did even work after a cvsup and build for 4.7-STABLE that I issued some time after my mail. Summary: The Epson Perfection 1260 is working with SANE. Best regards, Paul
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