device uscanner in GENERIC?
Mattias Schlenker
mattias at schlenker-webdesign.de
Tue Apr 20 06:25:06 PDT 2004
Does it make sense to keep the entry
device uscanner
in the GENERIC configuration file? Most people nowadays use scanners via
libusb which is also the default behavior if installing sane -backends
(it depends on libusb) from the ports. In FreeBSD 4.x usually having
"device uscanner" in your kernel configuration meant that the scanner
was available both via uscanner and ugen. However in 5.x "device
uscanner" blocks the scanner from being recognized.
Since this makes it necessary to recompile the kernel just to use a USB
scanner, I would suggest to deactivate device uscanner in GENERIC for
future kernels to make the use of FreeBSD a bit more painless for
newbies. If needed, uscanner.ko can still be loaded as a module.
Thanks,
Matt
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