"Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg at tristatelogic.com> writes: > Is this the latest and last word on suport (or rather the lack thereof) > for the Epson V500? > > > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2010-January/025872.html > > If so, this is kind-of depressing, because I'm on FreeBSD, not Linux.
Yes, although the various packages have seen new releases since. See via: [1] http://avasys.jp/eng/linux_driver/download/ for the latest information. WRT FreeBSD support, may I suggest you submit a support request[2] so we get concrete info on how badly people want this. [2] https://avasys.jp/eng/contact/inquiry/inq_form4_en.php > Is it really (still) the case that in order to make the V500 work with SANE > I have to get some closed-source binary that only runs on Linux? To the best of my knowledge, yes. I am not aware of any (successful) reverse engineering efforts. > I'm only asking because the guy who maintains the FreeBSD port of the epkowa > backend suggested that I try the epson2 backend, because he felt that it was > more up-to-date. Is that guy talking about the latest iscan release (2.27.1, released on 2011-09-26)? > But for me, neither than nor the epkowa backend seem to work. > "sane-find-scanner -q" finds the scanner, but "scanimage -L" does not. (And > no, it's not a permissions problem because I get the same result even when > I'm root.) Sorry that this doesn't help, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FLOSS Engineer -- AVASYS CORPORATION FSF Associate Member #1962 Help support software freedom http://www.fsf.org/jf?referrer=1962
