sane configuration in Freebsd 7

[Geoffrey]

On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Marc Fonvieille wrote:

Hi Marc

> On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 05:36:18PM -0400, Geoffrey wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> Regarding
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/scanners.html,
>>
>> sane-find-scanner won't find a scanner if uscanner is in the kernel (as
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm not sure to understand you.  What do you mean by "sane-find-scanner
> won't find a scanner if uscanner is in the kernel" ?
>
 	Sorry.  I need to be more specific.  "sane-find-scanner" will
not find a usb scanner if:

BURP:#device            uscanner        # Scanners

 	is not remarked out in your kernel config file OR if you load
the kld uscanner.  Sane uses usblib and usblib can't find the scanner
if uscanner is loaded.
 	Yes, you have to build and install a new kernel to do this as
uscanner is in the generic kernel:
 	GENERIC:device          uscanner        # Scanners


>> it is by default) in Freebsd 7 (uname -a
>> FreeBSD burp.bogstomp.org 7.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #4: Mon
>> Sep  8 16:11:35 EDT 2008
>> root at burp.bogstomp.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BURP  i386)
>>
>> 	I've also noted the "sane-find-scanner" man page erroneously
>> states this device is necessary.  I suspect there are other sane
>> manpages that may do likewise.
>
> This manual page as others from the SANE project are written for Linux,
> so the content related to devices, etc, can be confusing.
>
 	Ah.  This is true.  However uscanner is a local modification.
As far as I can determine linux used a different kernel device for
scanners (though I may be wrong).  Regardless, with the uscanner
references omitted the man page is correct in stating the scanner kernel
device interferes with usblib discovery of the scanner.  Usblib uses
ugen.  Uscanner just gets in the way.

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 	Cheers.

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