Best Scanner recs, please?

Gary Kline kline at tao.thought.org
Fri Dec 23 23:23:56 PST 2005


On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 02:10:59AM +0100, Martin P. Hansen wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Dec 2005, Gary Kline wrote:
> > 	Before everyone cuts out for the weekend {or year-end},
> > 	are there any models of scanner besides the Epson that
> > 	work with FBSD?  (Or Linux?)
> 
> I use a Canon LiDE 30 recognized as
> uscanner0: Canon CanoScan, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 3
> in FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE (should also appear in 5.x) together with
> sane-backends-1.0.15 and xsane-0.96.


	Thanks; this model is on my list.   Do you have USB 2.0
	defined (uncommented) in your KERNEL config file (and thus
	built into your kernel)??  I'm trying to figure out howto
	create /dev/uscanner0.

> 
> Sometimes the sensorpanel get stucked, but it might be because it
> is old. And it seems it can't cope with the resolutions below 64
> dpi. Otherwise it works fine.
> 

	OK. 
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> Martin P. Hansen
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