Jack McGill
--- On Thu, 11/6/08, Igor G Novikov <septagramm at gmail.com> wrote: > From: Igor G Novikov <septagramm at gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [sane-devel] Can't seem to find config files > To: "Sane development mailing list" <sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org> > Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008, 6:21 AM > Contact! > > Looks like in the end there was mistake on my end, that > didn't let sane > detect my scanner. You see, with my distribution two > packages are > shipped: sane-backends and sane-backends-libs. Before > installing sane > from sources i did remove sane-backends but didn't do > the same with > sane-backends libs. Since sane is installed from sources to > a different > place (/usr/local), rather than the one from package, libs > from rpm > stayed perfectly intact and it was them that sane was using > when looking > for scanner, not recompiled ones. So i removed > sane-backends-libs and my > scanner got perfectly detected. At least we're getting > somewhere. > > But of course scanner won't scan. Ok, it would scan, > but it's output > doesn't resemble whatever was scanned - it looks just > like red stripes > on black background. And there are problems with scanner > head. > > Usually before scanning scanner head goes couple of > centimeters forward > and adjusts light intensity, then goes back and starts > scanning. With > sane, it does the same, but with a louder sound, which > makes me a little > worried. And most importantly, scanner doesn't know > where to stop. When > scanning from XSane sometimes scanner head just goes about > one > centimeter and stops, beepeing strangely. Sometimes it goes > 2/3 of > scanner length, and it does so *very fast* with an odd > sound, then > finishes scanning and goes back with same speed and sound. > When running > scanimage from commandline, the sound and speed are quite > the same as > normally (by 'normally' i mean like it works on > proprietary system with > proprietary drivers), until scanner head bumps into the > wall. When you > stop it there, and look at the resulting image, about > 2/3-1/2 is filled, > so scanner head has a rather long way to go. > > Any ideas what to do with that? > > -- > Igor G Novikov > <septagramm at gmail.com> > > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe > your_password" > to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org