Feico Dillema wrote:
> PINT has been part of NetBSD since 1.2 (I think). However, I don't think
> support for the Umax scanners is in there, only scanjet/mustek support. Some
> time ago I added support for some Ricoh scanners to it.

I started using PiNT with an HP scanner attached to a Sparc.  It worked well,
although the user-interface isn't wonderful (I did write a curses-based
front-end but ...).  I stopped using PiNT when I moved to 1.3 because it
locks up the (Sparc) kernel on bootup.  I'm trying to track this down.

> I don't know whether the `raw-scsi' backends of SANE will work with NetBSD
> (maybe with the scsi-lib???) without modification, but SANE is a valuable
> source of information wrt to scanners. You can find it on the Web at:

Yes, they will.  I'm using Sane 0.70 with no problems - no patches needed.
I haven't tried the latest version yet (0.72) and I've only tried it with
an HP scanner on a Sparc.

> I've been hesitating with this, as I don't know how much of a standard PINT
> is and whether its development is actually dead. The effort would be wasted
> if it would result in incompatible PINT versions floating around. Please 
> comment.

As far as I can see, PiNT has stopped being developed (please correct me if
I'm wrong).  I don't see this as a reason why your Ricoh support couldn't be
added though.  Maybe it would spur other people to fix/extend PiNT.  However,
is it worth continuing to push PiNT if SANE is available?  Then again, I'm
not sure how many people have scanners attached to their NetBSD machines -
only a handful I'd guess - not that that really matters I suppose.

J

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