sane-project-backends/README.openbsd

SANE and OpenBSD
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Building:
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Don't forget to use GNU make (gmake). E.g. "MAKE=gmake ./configure". 
SANE should compile and install out-of-the-box.

SCSI-scanners:
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SANE only supports the generic /dev/uk? devices. /dev/ss? won't work. If your
scanner is detected by the ss driver, disable the driver with the "config"
utility or compile a new kernel without ss. Set a link /dev/scanner to
/dev/uk0 (or whatever you use) and/or edit your backend's config file
appropriately.

USB-scanners:
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USB-Scanners are supported in principle since OpenBSD 2.9. The USB scanner
driver "uscanner" and access over libusb is supported. To get your scanner
detected by the uscanner driver, it may be necessary to add it's vendor and
device ids to the kernel and recompile (sys/devs/usb/uscanner.c). With OpenBSD
3.0 there is also a bug concerning uscanner that prevents accessing the
/dev/uscanner devices.  Get a newer kernel in this case. If your MAKEDEV won't
make /dev/uscanner0 do it manually: "mknod /dev/uscanner0 c 77 0" for the
first scanner. Edit your backend's configuration file appropriately.
If you want to use libusb, your scanner should *not* be claimed by the uscanner
driver.

Parport-scanners:
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I don't have any information about these. Please contact me or the SANE mailing
list if you succeded in using one of these.

2002-07-03 Henning Meier-Geinitz <henning@meier-geinitz.de>