Scanner for 4.8

[Jonathan]

On Saturday 06 September 2003 10:27 am, Dave Bradshaw wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> Can anyone recommend a scanner that works well on 4.8.

Hi Dave:

 Epson 640 U Perfection works well on my FreeBSD 4.8. Look in man 5 
sane-epson,  man 5 sane-hp, etc. for a complete list of scanners supported on 
FreeBSD.  Also take a look at Jonathan Buzzard's page on USB scanners or SANE 
itself, before you go out and buy one.
http://www.buzzard.org.uk/jonathan/scanners-usb.html
http://www.mostang.com/sane/
To setup your USB scanner:
1) Install /usr/ports/graphics/sane-backends/ and /usr/ports/graphics/xsane/
2) run: 
 # sane-find-scanner
 as root. In the case of my Epson, it found  /dev/uscanner0
3) For an Epson scanner edit /usr/local/etc/sane.d/epson.conf
and put in the device that sane-find-scanner discovered. In my case, the 
epson.conf file looks like so. Be sure to comment out the line "scsi EPSON".

# epson.conf
#
# here are some examples for how to configure the EPSON backend
#
# SCSI scanner:
#scsi EPSON
#
# Parallel port scanner:
#pio 0x278
#pio 0x378
#pio 0x3BC
#
# USB scanner - only enable this if you have an EPSON scanner. It could
#               otherwise block your non-EPSON scanner from being
#               recognized.
#               Depending on your distribution, you may need either the
#               first or the second entry.
#usb /dev/usbscanner0
#usb /dev/usb/scanner0
usb /dev/uscanner0

4) Start Xsane and begin scanning. Works like a charm.

						Kind regards
						Jonathan