Re: FreeBSD scanners - SOLVED (info)

2004-08-23 Thread Anton Alin-Adrian
Dear List, I got myself the Canon USB LiDE 30 Scanner. It has 100% support by sane, works in FreeBSD and Suse 9.1 (had to be configured manually by yast). Wonderfull colors, great resolution, lightweight, sharp, BSD style & design, special ergonomic functionality for little space consumption (ca

Re: FreeBSD scanners

2004-08-23 Thread Ian Moore
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 00:45, Warren Block wrote: > On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Ian Moore wrote: > > I have a DiamondView DV650U scanner that is supported by SANE, but I > > always assumed that because FBSD doesn't detect it as a uscanner device, > > just a ugen, it wouldn't work. How would I edit uscanner.c

Re: FreeBSD scanners

2004-08-22 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Ian Moore wrote: I have a DiamondView DV650U scanner that is supported by SANE, but I always assumed that because FBSD doesn't detect it as a uscanner device, just a ugen, it wouldn't work. How would I edit uscanner.c & rebuild whatever to see if it works? usbdevs -v gives the

Re: FreeBSD scanners

2004-08-22 Thread Ian Moore
On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 09:13, Warren Block wrote: > On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Anton Alin-Adrian wrote: > > EPSON perfection 1670 > > http://www.sane-project.org says it has "good" support for the 1670. > > There's an entry for the printer in /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/uscanner.c > (FreeBSD 4.10), so FreeBSD shou

Re: FreeBSD scanners

2004-08-21 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 19 August 2004 at 15:52:54 +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 10:01:07AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> >> Interesting. I've just had a very bad experience with Canon's >> scanners. See >> http://.lemis.com/grog/product-reviews/Canon-breakage.html for t

Re: FreeBSD scanners

2004-08-19 Thread Marc Fonvieille
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 09:57:40AM -0500, Marc Wiz wrote: > > So let me ask this question; what are good scanners now days? > I'd say a scanner giving good results with slides. > I know there are some high end scanners that do Firewire (about > ~$400) and some scanners even have SCSI. Any reco

Re: FreeBSD scanners

2004-08-19 Thread Marc Wiz
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 03:52:54PM +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 10:01:07AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > > > Interesting. I've just had a very bad experience with Canon's > > scanners. See > > http://.lemis.com/grog/product-reviews/Canon-breakage.html for t

Re: FreeBSD scanners

2004-08-19 Thread Marc Fonvieille
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 10:01:07AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > Interesting. I've just had a very bad experience with Canon's > scanners. See > http://.lemis.com/grog/product-reviews/Canon-breakage.html for the > whole sad story. > Unfortunately, I'm not surprised. Since USB is th

Re: FreeBSD scanners

2004-08-18 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 17 August 2004 at 15:23:41 +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 03:32:37PM +0300, Anton Alin-Adrian wrote: >> Marc Fonvieille wrote: >> I found this "CANON Scanner Canon Lide30 USB" available to be bought >>> >>> It is supported under 4.10 and -CURRENT. I use it

Re: FreeBSD scanners

2004-08-17 Thread Marc Fonvieille
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 08:17:00AM -0400, Charles Ulrich wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please, if any of you has confident experience with any of the following > > scanners under FreeBSD, please let me know. I must find something available > > for buying and it must work smoothly in FreeB

Re: FreeBSD scanners

2004-08-17 Thread Marc Fonvieille
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 03:32:37PM +0300, Anton Alin-Adrian wrote: > Marc Fonvieille wrote: > > >>I found this "CANON Scanner Canon Lide30 USB" available to be bought > > > >It is supported under 4.10 and -CURRENT. I use it :) and I used it > >during the write of the Handbook's scanners section

Re: FreeBSD scanners

2004-08-17 Thread Charles Ulrich
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please, if any of you has confident experience with any of the following > scanners under FreeBSD, please let me know. I must find something available > for buying and it must work smoothly in FreeBSD (otherwise there's no point > of buying a new scanner, as I already h

Re: FreeBSD scanners

2004-08-17 Thread Marc Fonvieille
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 02:00:13PM +0300, Anton Alin-Adrian wrote: > Thank you all for all of the information. > > I found this "CANON Scanner Canon Lide30 USB" available to be bought, nice > price, nice performance, donno much about canon's reputation with scanners. > > It has "complete" suppor

Re: FreeBSD scanners

2004-08-17 Thread Anton Alin-Adrian
Thank you all for all of the information. I found this "CANON Scanner Canon Lide30 USB" available to be bought, nice price, nice performance, donno much about canon's reputation with scanners. It has "complete" support by the plustek-sane backened. The only problem is it is not listed in uscanner

Re: FreeBSD scanners

2004-08-15 Thread Jon Drews
Hello Anton: I would suggest going to the SANE website: http://www.sane-project.org/ I have an E640U USB scanner working under FreeBSD 4.9 and 5.2 CURRENT. That one works very well. On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 01:46:17 +0300, Anton Alin-Adrian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please, if any of you has con

Re: FreeBSD scanners

2004-08-15 Thread Ruslan N. Gogunsci
Hello Anton, I use Epson perfection 1650 without problems. But it isn't in your list. On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 01:46:17 +0300 Anton Alin-Adrian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please, if any of you has confident experience with any of the following > scanners under FreeBSD, please let me know. I must fi

Re: FreeBSD scanners

2004-08-14 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Anton Alin-Adrian wrote: EPSON perfection 1670 http://www.sane-project.org says it has "good" support for the 1670. There's an entry for the printer in /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/uscanner.c (FreeBSD 4.10), so FreeBSD should detect it as a "uscanner" device. (Assuming you'll be usin

Re: FreeBSD scanners

2004-08-14 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 15 August 2004 at 1:46:17 +0300, Anton Alin-Adrian wrote: > Please, if any of you has confident experience with any of the following > scanners under FreeBSD, please let me know. I must find something available > for buying and it must work smoothly in FreeBSD (otherwise there's no poin

FreeBSD scanners

2004-08-14 Thread Anton Alin-Adrian
Please, if any of you has confident experience with any of the following scanners under FreeBSD, please let me know. I must find something available for buying and it must work smoothly in FreeBSD (otherwise there's no point of buying a new scanner, as I already have one which is not working in