# Re: continued snapscan troubles

joakim verona (joakim@verona.se)
Tue, 26 Oct 1999 22:33:10 +0000

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Kevin Charter wrote:
>
> Hi Joakim,
>
> > i tried terminating the scanner. i then tried it out on my laptop, using
> > the same versions
> > of the softwares. the scsi driver is still aha152x with my pcmcia scsi
> > card.
> >
> > i tried it with snapscan backend 0.7 and the 1.0 alpha.
> > with the 1.0 alpha backend, the scanner dumps a lot of data, but the
> > head does not move.
>
> OK, so you have the same problem with both the laptop and the
> dual-processor machine. Do you have an earlier version of the
> kernel that you could try? I can try upgrading to the latest
> kernel to see if I have similar problems, but I probably won't get
> to that until the weekend at the earliest.

could you give me a hint of your configuration? then I could simulate
that as much as
possible, and thus we could isolate which part of the configuration that
creates the problem.

> >
> > any more sugestions? i will try the scanner on windows also to rule out
> > hardware problems
> > with the scanner, but i'm not very eager to do that because then i must
> > install windows
> > on my laptop :-(
>
> That's a good idea. This is a 1236? It isn't too likely that you need
> a firmware update, especially since the backend is really designed
> to work best with the old 300 and 310 models (that's all I have docs
> for).

hmm. how do i know that? anyway its an old 300, i guess.

> >
> > other people with this same problem seems to have solved it by using the
> > 0.7 backend, but im not
> > so lucky. what can the difference be? the firmware revision in the
> > scanner? is it possible
> > to upgrade the snapscan?
> >
>
> Kevin
>
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>
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