CanoScan 5000F Driver Support

[Julian Elischer]

Arne Wörner wrote:
>>Is there any way to get CanoScan 5000F to work?
>>
> 
> I do not see any.
> 
> There is a project for that device, but they did not even release 
> beta source code up to now:
>    https://gna.org/projects/canoscan5000F
> 
> When I plugged in my Canon LIDE20 scanner,
> 1. I decided to make the FreeBSD uscanner driver to like LIDE20
> scanners
>     I used usbdevs -v to find out the vendor and product code
>     in /sys/dev/usb/usbdevs there is a list of devices
>     in /sys/dev/usb/uscanner.c there is a list of scanners
>       (I updated both lists)

this is not needed for the Lide20..
There is already another device ther ewith the same IDs
that is recognised (from the same family of scanners I presume)

> 2. I decided to use sane from ports
>     /usr/ports/graphics/*sane*
> 3. I decided to use the plustek driver after consulting the sane
> driver search engine:
>    generic search form:
>       http://www.sane-project.org/cgi-bin/driver.pl
>    in your case:
>       http://www.sane-project.org/unsupported/canon-5000f.html
> 
> Then you can use sane-find-scanner to see, if sane finds your
> scanner.
> 
> And you can try xsane to see, if it can scan...
> 
> -Arne
> 
> 
> 
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