On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 7:21 AM, m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Gernot Hassenpflug > <aikishugyo at gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 2:25 AM, Kurt Rosenfeld >> <hardware at ee.ccny.cuny.edu> wrote: >>> Here is some good news. ?I tried Backends 1.0.21 on a FreeBSD 9 >>> machine and it works. ?Here is the stderr output: >> >> Well, interesting. Of course you need 1.0.21, since the scanner was >> not supported in 1.0.20. However, it surprised me that the pixma >> driver recognized the scanner since 1.0.20 would not have registered >> the 8800F at all. >> >>> http://acm.poly.edu/~kurt/scanimage_freebsd_all255.txt >>> >>> This is the first time I tried it on a FreeBSD 9 machine. >>> I tried it before on another older FreeBSD 7 machine and it >>> seemed to fail in the same way as I have been seeing with >>> Linux. ?In both cases a little bit of dirty stuff was needed >>> to get it to compile since the current version of SANE Backends >>> in the FreeBSD ports tree is 1.0.20, which does not support the >>> Canon 8800F. ?The maintainer of the port recently submitted a >>> patch (awaiting commit) that, among other things, updates the >>> port to use 1.0.21. ?Today I manually applied that patch to my >>> ports tree and built sane-backends on the FreeBSD 9 box here in >>> the lab. ?What next? ?-kurt >> >> You could install 1.0.21 from source? >> > > Thats what he did :)
Duh! Morning without coffee! OK, so there is now the extra option of using 1.0.21 directly. That is nice. I can't fathom what the usb error is on that machine the OP is using. I've lost track of what machine wer're talking about :-) Cheers, Gernot
