Subject: Re: uscanner* and 2.0
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Bruce J.A. Nourish <bjan@bjan.freeshell.org>
List: current-users
Date: 03/30/2004 10:33:15
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 06:53:31AM +0000, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> In article <20040329045131.GA12097@bjan.freeshell.org>,
> 	"Bruce J.A. Nourish" <bjan@bjan.freeshell.org> writes:
> > The new approach on both Linux and the BSDs is simply to use 
> > ugen(4) to directly control the scanner. 
> 
> Does that really work under NetBSD? When I bought my Epson Perfection 1260
> a year ago uscanner(4) was the only way to get it working with SANE at that
> point of time.

Any instance of this is either a bug in SANE or a bug in ugen(4). Do you
still have that scanner?

> > I ask that, at the least, we comment out uscanner in the GENERIC
> > kernels, and perhaps remove it altogether.
> 
> If it is *known* to work in all configuration which worked with uscanner(4)
> before we can remove it.

See above.

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