Re: Snapscan problem

From: Shea Martin (snowsquirrel@home.com)
Date: Sat Feb 24 2001 - 10:48:00 PST

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    Steve Underwood wrote:
    >
    > Hi Snapscan experts everywhere,
    >
    > I have just updated Sane for the first time since I updated the Snapscan
    > driver last spring to correctly merge the colours, and to work with my
    > Acer 610+. I have updated to Sane 1.0.4, xsane 0.72, and the
    > snapscan-11282000 code from Sourgeforge. Now I get something odd.
    >
    > I am using RedHat 6.2, with all the relevant update RPMs, plus a stock
    > Linux 2.2.18 kernel I needed to get USB working (not for the scanner,
    > though). My scanner is an Acer 610+ (SCSI) connected to its own private
    > Adaptec 2840 card (aic7xxx.o driver, as a module).
    >
    > The scanner scans, but sometimes stops for maybe 10-15 seconds of total
    > silence, then continues for a bit, then stops for another 10-15 seconds,
    > then continues. The final result eventually looks correct.
    >
    > The machine is fast (700MHz Athlon), the SCSI card is capable of high
    > performance, and there is nothing else happening on the machine during
    > these scans.
    >
    > When I used Sane 1.0.1 with the snapscan driver I modified, and xsane
    > 0.59 I never saw this happen.
    >
    > Can anyone shed any light on this?
    >
    > Regards,
    > Steve
    >
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    First, try the cvs version of the snapscan backend. Second, it may be
    that your buffer size is set to low. There is a way to change this at
    compile time, but I don't recall how at present.

    I am not a sane developer, this is just based on reading the list and
    having and Acer scanner.

    -- 
    ...elbows out,
    stick on the ice!
    

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