Subject: Re: CanoScan LiDE 30 on NetBSD not found by SANE
To: Xihong Yin <xyin@bluebottle.com>
From: Christoph Leuzinger <chris+ml@westworks.ch>
List: pkgsrc-users
Date: 11/17/2006 10:20:01
Hi!
Am 17.11.2006 02:01 schrieb Xihong Yin:
> dmesg recognizes the scanner correctly. The output of dmesg is
>
> -------------------------------------------------
> uscanner0 at uhub0 port 1
> uscanner0: Canon CanoScan, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2
> ---------------------------------------------------
Well, the uscanner(4) man page says:
> BUGS
> This driver should not really exist. The scanners it recognizes
> can be
> accessed through the ugen(4) driver instead. A proper scanner
> driver
> would provide a uniform interface to scanners instead of exposing
> the
> innards of the scanner. The reason the driver exists is to have
> some-
> thing that is compatible with the Linux driver.
Furthermore, your model is not one of the few supported by uscanner(4).
Maybe you should try a kernel where uscanner(4) is disabled.
Cheers,
Christoph