sane-project-backends/README.netbsd

SANE and NetBSD
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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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If the SCSI host adapter is supported, there are no known problems. Try
sane-find-scanner to find out the correct device and edit the backend's
configuration file appropriately or set a link /dev/scanner to the device
file. Auto-configuration using the "scsi *" lines in the config files
doesn't work.

USB-scanners:
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USB-Scanners are supported in principle. Using libusb is recommended.

Problems when using libusb:

Older kernels may need to be compiled WITHOUT DIAGNOSTIC. Disable it in the
config file or use a GENERIC kernel without DIAGNOSTIC. If it is, you will get
errors like "ugenioctl: USB_SET_TIMEOUT, no pipe".

When using libusb, make sure, that /dev/ugen* and /dev/usb* devices are
available. Use /dev/MAKEDEV to create them, if necessary.

If you want to use libusb, disable the uscanner driver.

Problems with uscanner driver:

The uscanner driver also works (tested with the plustek backend). As the
uscanner driver can't detect the vendor and product ids automatically, it's
necessary to add the name of the device file to the backends's configuration
file. Some backends also need the vendor and product id of the scanner.

Some backends won't work with the uscanner driver becasue they need USB
control messages. Use libusb instead.

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.

2003-04-24 Henning Meier-Geinitz <henning@meier-geinitz.de>