Subject: Re: Scanner software?
To: Feico Dillema <dillema@anduin.huygens.org>
From: Alistair Crooks <azcb0@amdahl.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 05/06/1998 03:25:01
> Your message dated: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 11:28:31 +0200
> >Your message dated: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 14:42:47 MST
> >>	SANE certainly looks to be the way to go. Might it be possible to
> >>	produce a NetBSD package for SANE to make it easier for anyone
> >>	to install?
> >>
> >>	http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/netbsd/Packages.txt
> >
> >I don't mind doing that, but probably won't have time for it the next two
> >weeks. if somebody can do it faster, please do... BTW, do you send-pr a
> >package to add one or...
> 
> I tried the FreeBSD package of SANE, and it basically compiles out of the box.
> I found only one little problem, and it didn't seem NetBSD-specific to me. As
> I do not have a scanner that is supported by SANE at the moment, I cannot test
> it very well. I suggest that somebody with a supported scanner grabs the 
> FreeBSD package, compiles and tests it a bit (and copies it into the NetBSD 
> pkgsrc tree). I'll be busy trying to include support for my scanner (a Ricoh
> scanner) into SANE (and NetBSD/PINT)...

You could always try the NetBSD package for sane:

	pkgsrc/graphics/sane

The pkg-CHANGES file tells me that Thorsten added it on May 3rd.