[sane-devel] Problem building on OSX

[Dino Tang]

> But that's only with USB, isn't it? Or even only with this scanner? As
> far as I know, SCSI scanners work with the epson backend on MacOS X.
> At least I have one report about the Epson Perfection 1640SU working.
>
> More reports on which scanners work or don't work on MacOS X are
> welcome.
>

As long as the usblib was installed properly using the recent toolset ( 
Dec 2002 ), quite a few of USB and SCSI devices should work.  I have 
tested and got images back from the following devices:

- UMax Astra 1220U in USB mode
* Reasonable image quality, still need color correction.
- UMax Astra 2000U in USB mode
* Serious image quality problem.
- Epson Perfection 1640SU in both USB and SCSI modes
* Good image quality.  Support a lot of options.  Good performance in 
SCSI mode.
- Epson Perfection 2450 PHOTO in USB mode
* Good image quality.  Support a lot of options. Still has problems in 
FireWire mode.
- CANON IX-06015C ( similar to CanoScan 600 ) in SCSI mode
* Does not support tiff format! ( --format=tiff ).  I can only get 
image back in pnm format.  --format=tiff returned bad argument error.  
This seems like a problem of the canon backend.  Please correct me if 
I'm wrong.

I too would like to see reports on which scanners work or don't work on 
MacOS X.

--Dino