# PR440FX NOW successful with xsane

From: Kurt Savegnago (ksaves2@theramp.net)
Date: Tue Apr 11 2000 - 19:56:02 PDT

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  Hello again,

  Bradley was right. I fired up my old 2.2.13 kernel I had lying around
  on my dos partition using loadlin and viola' xsane actually came right up
  when I clicked on GIMP .18! WOW. I tried to do 1.0.4 and did have the link
  on the machine but it didn't come up. The machine at least did not lock
  up so I was able to go back to .18.

  I actually was right about the kernel code being the issue as I guess
  the later kernels aren't as stable on my particular motherboard. Well I
  can start to fine tune to settings and get off to scanning. The H-P
  6300 under scsi is really pretty good. I just have to get it right so
  it doesn't take 20mb to store one image. (Yeah I know I can fix-it
  under GIMP or XV)

  Best regards,
  Kurt Savegnago
  ksaves2@theramp.net

  Mrv wrote:
  >
  > Kurt,
  > I don't think it's going to make any difference given all the attempts
  > you have made, but the last STABLE kernel is currently
  > 2.2.14. Although, 2.3.99-pre3 has worked without failure for me with
  > the same scanner and a dual processor setup, but just figured if you
  > were really interested in trying the last stable kernel you might want
  > to know you had an error in your info. =)
  >
  > Bradley =)
  >
  > On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Kurt
  > Savegnago wrote:
  >
  > > Hi,
  > >
  > > I have tried inside out and backwards to get sane-1.0.2 to work on
  > > an old dual Pentium Pro PR440FX motherboard to no avail. I believe it
  > > is a kernel problem NOT a sane problem. I tried with kernel 2.3.19
  > > (the last stable kernel) and find-scanner could not find the scanner.
  > > I checked with the permissions and they were set fine. I tried with
  > > SMP and single processor kernels. Building was not a problem.
  > > The executables were where they were supposed to be.
  > >
  > > I then used the 2.3.99-pre1 and pre3 kernels and made progress with
  > > find-scanner being able to find the H-P 6300C scanner on the AIC7880
  > > controller. Using scanimage -L the machine gives me what looks like a
  > > stack trace for some sort of failure. This occurs with either an SMP or
  > > uniprocessor kernel. I'm going to wait and see what happens when the
  > > new
  > > 2.4 distribution comes out. I'm currently using Slack 7.0.
  > >
  > > In the meantime I have a FIC-2013 with a K6-3 450Mhz and 2mb L2 cache
  > > and
  > > an AHA-2940UW scsi controller I can try to use to get sane and xsane
  > > working
  > > with this scanner.
  > >
  > > Incidentally, Winblows 98 (on a single cpu) did work with the scanner
  > > with
  > > the bundled software they provided. My main complaint is I hated the
  > > image manipulation software. It was lousy! I was scanning under
  > > WinBlows
  > > and then importing to Linux so I could use XV and GIMP.
  > >
  > > Best regards,
  > > Kurt Savegnago
  > > ksaves2@theramp.net
  > >
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