# Mustek 12000SP works! but color wash out seen

From: Kurt Savegnago (ksaves2@theramp.net)
Date: Thu Dec 07 2000 - 08:35:15 PST

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  Hi,

  I bought a cheap $60.00 12000SP scsi scanner about a year ago.
  Got it working in WinBlows with the proprietary card and it gave
  acceptable results. They were so acceptable that I almost
  regretted getting an H-P 6300C!

  I never did get it working on the Linux side until recently.
  Heard about the proprietary card being junky and really couldn't
  get linux to work with an AVA-1510 card. I did try an 2940UW card
  but the other devices wouldn't respond.
  I let the thing sit for 9 months and decided to throw a machine
  together on Sunday just for fun. I used an old Micronics M6Hi PPro
  board and decided to just toss in a Buslogic BT-958 card for
  the scanner and not connect up any other devices. I recompiled
  the kernel up to 2.4.0-test11 and actually got a PPro 333Mhz
  cpu to work in the thing. It wasn't recognized in the BIOS as
  a 333Mhz unit (it said 75Mhz!) but Linux gave the appropriate
  response to cat /proc/cpuinfo and also said it was 661 BogoMips.
  It also ran faster.
  Sane-1.0.3 compiled up just fine and xscanimage fired right up
  and RAN RIGHT OFF THE BAT! I thought that was really cool!
  I scanned some magazine covers (Linux Journals actually)and saved
  the images to the hard drive. My question is this:

  When I saved the images in a variety of formats and then open them
  in XV or GIMP the color is washed out. I have Sane set for color
  and "Acquire Preview" gives an acceptable image. I haven't messed with
  the settings. Is there something I need to do to get it to save the
  color information properly?

  I also went ahead and built xsane-0.64. I used to have problems
  in the past but not anymore. It compiled and installed without
  difficulty. I set up a separate account logged out of root and
  logged-in to the new account. I got Xsane up and running fine.
  Again, here I could acquire a preview in full color but when I
  saved the images the color would be washed out when opening in
  XV or GIMP

  Thanks for the help. I am also using an H-P 6300C with my
  renovated ALR Quad 6 with four 333Mhz Pentium Pro Overdrive cpu's,
  three SCA 10,000 rpm drives and a tekram DC390U2W LVD controller.
  The system really rocks! Image manipulation is a blast and the
  investment on my part was about $2,300.00. I know that may be
  a bit much but I like the solidness of the ALR case and dual
  power supplies. The system with four 166Mhz PPros four years
  ago was $34,000! The ALR Quad 6's will run with the PPro
  Overdrive, I know that for a fact. I suspect the 6 X 6 would
  also work although I don't know anyone who has tried it.
  I do have eight OD's I could use to try though! :)

  Kurt Savegnago
  ksaves2@theramp.net

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