My epjitsu backend speaks to some Epson-based Fujitsu machines. I suppose it is possible that the v500 could be related, and a modified version could be produced.
allan On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg at tristatelogic.com> wrote: > > In message <87fwi43zbq.fsf at avasys.jp>, > Olaf Meeuwissen <olaf.meeuwissen at avasys.jp> wrote: > >>WRT FreeBSD support, may I suggest you submit a support request[2] so we >>get concrete info on how badly people want this. > > I'm not sure that I understand your request. ?Could you elaborate? > > I mean I want it. ?I want it bad. ?How bad? ?On a scale from one to ten? > Well, you know, I suppose that there are many things in this life that I > want more... youth, good looks, lots of money... > > If you are thinking that many other people will suddenly arise from out of > the woodwork to clamor for a FreeBSD port of your driver, once I have formally > done so, well I seriously don't think that's realistic. ?It's clear that > FreeBSD doesn't have nearly the market penetration of Linux at this point, > so there is never going to be a numerically huge demand. ?But those of us > who use FreeBSD sure would think kindly of your company if you helped us > on on this. > >>> Is it really (still) the case that in order to make the V500 work with SANE >>> I have to get some closed-source binary that only runs on Linux? >> >>To the best of my knowledge, yes. ?I am not aware of any (successful) >>reverse engineering efforts. > > Alright. Thank you much for the information. > >>> I'm only asking because the guy who maintains the FreeBSD port of the epkowa >>> backend suggested that I try the epson2 backend, because he felt that it was >>> more up-to-date. >> >>Is that guy talking about the latest iscan release (2.27.1, released on >>2011-09-26)? > > I have no idea what specific version he was talking about. ?All I know is > that I've now tried both epkowa and epson2 and both are non-functioning for > me in the way I described, i.e. sane-find-scanner sees the scanner while > scanimage does not. > > > Regards, > rfg > > > P.S. ?If you guys already have the code to make this work, then why not just > do a FreeBSD port and release it as "unsupported"? ?I cannot imagine that > doing that would take much work on your part. ?I mean it isn't as if Linux > and FreeBSD are such radically different environments. ?In fact they are > virtually identially in most respects. ?And also, as I understand it, access > to this typr of scanner on FreeBSD is now performed exclusively through a > low-level thing called "libusb" which is presenting some sort of nice clean > API to higher level code that wants to access USB devices. ?So if your code > already knows how to interface to libusb on Linux... well... I mean seriously, > how hard would it be to just recompile the stuff for FreeBSD and then just > stick the result on your FTP server under unsupported/ or something like that? > > Of course, if you are willing to do this I'll be more than happy to volunteer > to be the guinea pig and test the thing out for you and see if it even works. > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > ? ? ? ? ? ? to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org > -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"