Hi, thanks for the report that it works at all. However, the HP 8270 was reported used with my SANE backend in a 20 scanner installation without any problems.
I also do not have lockup or instability issues with the Avision scanner (unlike HP, Avision is even donating scanners, so I can test them ...). Scanning is also known to work with 5400dpi on my Avision based Minolta Elite 5400 film scanner. Would be great if you could devote a little time writing some how to reproduce texts with SANE_DEBUG_AVISION=7 (for a beginning) log messages. That would be a great help. Regarding the high res borderless windoer issue: Maybe just save such huge files to disk instead of letting the built-in image view display it ... Yours, On 04.02.2008, at 04:27, shivers at ccs.neu.edu wrote: > I owe this list a followup on my attempt to get sane working with an > HP Scanjet 8270. > > As Rene suggested, I checked out the sane-backend module from the CVS > repository, compiled it on my AMD64 ubuntu gutsy system & installed > it without > problems. Once it was installed, sane-find-scanner was able to see > it, and I > was able to do scans with xsane. > > That's the good news. > > The bad news is that it is quite flaky: it locks up and/or crashes > frequently > enough to be unusable. If I push the scan resolution too high, it > locks up. > If I do several scans, it eventually locks up. After a high-res > scan, xsane > will pop up a borderless full-screen window showing the scan that I am > unable to dismiss. > > I'm able to work around all this simply by running the HP software in > WinXP in a vmware sandbox and writing the files out to the unix > filesystem > via samba. But I hope this report is of some use, and if I can submit > anything more detailed that would be helpful, let me know what I > should do, > and I'll try to make it happen. > > Thanks for all the advice. > -Olin -- Ren? Rebe - ExactCODE GmbH - Europe, Germany, Berlin Gesch?ftsf?hrer: Susanne Klaus, Ren? Rebe Sitz: Berlin, Amtsgericht Charlottenburg HRB 105 123 B USt-IdNr.: DE251602478 http://exactcode.de | http://t2-project.org | http://rene.rebe.name