# Re: Snapscan Troubles

Daniel Menna (menna@parametrix.ch)
Tue, 26 Oct 1999 08:41:19 +0200

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----- Original Message -----
From: Kevin Charter <charter@cs.ualberta.ca>
To: <sane-devel@mostang.com>
Sent: Monday, October 25, 1999 8:39 PM
Subject: Re: Snapscan Troubles

> [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
> > Kernel: 2.2.10
> > Sane: 1.0.1
> > Scanner: Agfa Snapscan 600
> > SCSI: Adaptec AHA1505AE
> >
> > After my system finally recognized my snapscan 600, I tried scanimage,
> > xscanimage, kscan (compliation of xsane failed...). my scanner showed
some
> > raction (LED blinking etc.), but no scanning at all. no... there was one
> > single successful attempt with xscanimage, but this was the one and only
> > (although I didnt change anything).
> > if I use the command scanimage -v the system returns:
> >
> > scanimage: scanning image of size 2539x3420 pixels at 24 bits/pixel
> > scanimage: acquiring RGB frame, 8 bits/sample
> > P6
> > # sane data follows
> > 2539 3420
> > 255
> >
> > and that's all. no further action. after some minute I press ^C to stop
it.
> > scanimage -T says: FAIL NO DATA.
> >
> > Thanks for help!
> > Daniel
>
>
> Hi Daniel,
>
> Which version of the SnapScan backend are you using, and which version
> of SANE do you have? Which kernel are you running (I assume you are
> running this on Linux)?
>
> If you are using the backend that comes which SANE 1.0.1 with a series
> 2.2 kernel, there is a bug that prevents the backend from working with
> the new generic scsi driver. This is fixed in an updated backend
> available at
>
> http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~charter/SnapScan/snapscan.html
>
> You should get backend version 0.7. The newer experimental releases
> may not work for you.
>
> Let me know if this fixes things,
>
> Kevin
>
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Thanky you, Kevin!
After recompling sane 1.0.1 with the new snapscan backend version 0.7
scanning is fine!
Daniel

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