# Re: scanimage -L crashes SuSE 6.4

From: Bernhard Scheffold (bernhard@adinfinitum.de)
Date: Wed Apr 12 2000 - 09:58:46 PDT

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  On 11-Apr-00 abel deuring wrote:
  > Bernhard Scheffold wrote:
  >
  >
  >>
  >> I have gotten rid of the crash by going back to sane-1.0.1 :-(
  >>
  >> So the problem doesn't seem to be in the scsi drivers.
  >>
  >
  > There seems to be a complex combination of reasons... Yesterday evening,
  > I played a little bit with the aha1542 driver, and it seems that the
  > driver detects a corrupted scatter-gather list (== fragmented buffer)
  > for the SCSI data. The aha1542 works fine, if the maximum required
  > buffer size is 32 kB. As soon as the buffer size is increased to 32769
  > bytes, I get the kernel crash,
  >
  > Therefore, you might try to configure sane-1.0.2 with the option
  > --enable-scsibuffersize=32768

  That gets rid of the crash. Thank you very much! I've only got another problem
  with using xsane as a Gimp-plugin: Gimp displays a checkerboard instead of the
  scanned image data. :-(

  Bernhard.

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