hmm perhaps you could try
scanimage --format tiff --mode gray --speed 4 -v >image.tiff
Those are my options, maybe people are having problems because they're
trying to use colour images? I'll admit that scanning with other options
than these produces strange results.
_J
In the new year, Oliver Neukum wrote:
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> On Sonntag, 18. Februar 2001 20:47, you wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I got my scanner scanning! It does not bring me useable Images, but it
> > works once between rebooting. Well, I am now at t
> > he point all the others were, who wrote to the list weeks ago.
>
> This is interresting. This error occured early in the development of the X6
> driver.
>
> How does the avision backend detected end of scan ?
>
> > The differeces to my previous tries are the following:
> > OS: SuSE 7.0
> > Kernel: 2.4.0-test11 (with usb-scsi-patch)
>
> Could you try the newest ac kernel ? (unpatched)
>
> > The buffersize has to be set to 32k! Neither 4k,8k,16k,48k nor 64k did
> > work.. Only one scan was possible. Rescanning with the same resolution
> > results in the same filesize, but the head of the scanner doesn't move
> > properly. That's why the image is even more unuseable - it contains parts
> > of the old image. Changing the resolution causes more trash. Here's the
> > image I scanned: http://www.freeresources.de/misc/steindlberger/
>
> Could you try switching off and on again your scanner between scans ?
>
> Regards
> Oliver Neukum
>
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