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<STRONG>From:</STRONG> Sebastien Sable (<A HREF="mailto:sebastien.sable@gmx.net?Subject=Re:%20Problems%20with%20Acer%20ScanPrisa%20640S&In-Reply-To=&lt;87pukuxm7i.fsf@gmx.net&gt;"><EM>sebastien.sable@gmx.net</EM></A>)<BR>
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&quot;Lawrence Glaister&quot; &lt;<A HREF="mailto:lg@jfm.bc.ca?Subject=Re:%20Problems%20with%20Acer%20ScanPrisa%20640S&In-Reply-To=&lt;87pukuxm7i.fsf@gmx.net&gt;">lg@jfm.bc.ca</A>&gt; writes:
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<P><EM>&gt; I am wondering if the speed test can be removed.... what does it
</EM><BR>
<EM>&gt; really get used for? Since there is probably only a 3-1 range in
</EM><BR>
<EM>&gt; times between the slowest and fastest scanners, does the rate really
</EM><BR>
<EM>&gt; need to be measured... it doesn't seem to get used for setting
</EM><BR>
<EM>&gt; timeouts.
</EM><BR>
<P>My scanner is probably very slow compared to others (it's 4 years
<BR>
old). But even with this slow scanner, I can always put
<BR>
expected_read_bytes to its maximum value without any problem. So the
<BR>
speed test is probably useless (at least up to 300dpi with scsi
<BR>
scanners).
<BR>
<P><EM>&gt; Do you notice your scanner blocking during the speed test or during a real
</EM><BR>
<EM>&gt; scan? I found a &quot;hang condition&quot; was occurring during the speed test because
</EM><BR>
<EM>&gt; RGBRouter was called with a small 32k buffer to test the transfer rate with.
</EM><BR>
<P>My scanner was only blocking during the real scan with a picture of
<BR>
more than about 400KB. I am going to try to describe it more
<BR>
precisely:
<BR>
<P>when the scan starts, the first value of expected_read_bytes just
<BR>
before scsi_read in SCSISource_get is the maximum value (~32000 or
<BR>
something).
<BR>
Then nearly each time a new scsi_read happens expected_read_bytes is
<BR>
decreased of about 2000. This reduction happens in the calculation of:
<BR>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;ps-&gt;pss-&gt;expected_read_bytes =
<BR>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;((int) (msecs/ps-&gt;pss-&gt;ms_per_line))*ps-&gt;pss-&gt;bytes_per_line;
<BR>
<P>So while scanning, you have the number of bytes read at each step:
<BR>
step1: 32000
<BR>
step2: 30000
<BR>
step3: 28000
<BR>
...
<BR>
step15: 4000
<BR>
step16: 2000
<BR>
step18: 0
<BR>
step19: 0
<BR>
...
<BR>
<P>Of course, if you arrive at step 18, you ask for nothing, so you get
<BR>
nothing and the scan just starts an infinite loop asking nothing to
<BR>
the scanner... eheh -&gt; problem
<BR>
<P>This happens if your picture is bigger than :
<BR>
(32000 + 30000 + 28000 + .... + 4000 + 2000) = ~400KB
<BR>
<P>(my old math teachers would kill me for such a line! I said it was
<BR>
_about_ 32000)
<BR>
<P>If I force expected_read_bytes to be always the maximum value, the
<BR>
scanner works perfectly.
<BR>
<P><EM>&gt; The rest of the code was expecting a 23mb image to be scanned and the
</EM><BR>
<EM>&gt; RGBRouter_remaining() function broke with -ve return values.
</EM><BR>
<EM>&gt; The second problem I noticed was the EAGAIN problem with the USB driver.
</EM><BR>
<EM>&gt; Somewhere in the 2.4.0 code, the USB drivers stopped blocking on a read and
</EM><BR>
<EM>&gt; started returning EAGAIN and 0 bytes when the scanner was busy (noticeable
</EM><BR>
<EM>&gt; during scanhead backtracking).
</EM><BR>
<P>I tried your patches when you suggested them. They didn't change
<BR>
anything with my scanner (and didn't appear in the debug info). I
<BR>
think that those problems (-ve in RGBRouter_remaining and EAGAIN)
<BR>
never happen in my case (it is probably USB specific?).
<BR>
<P>Indeed I just tried a 24.8MB picture (full A4 with 300dpi color) and
<BR>
everything worked fine.
<BR>
<P>A+
<BR>
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