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 :) allan -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
