Your mail gets thru just fine now. Unfortunately, the gt68xx backend is unmaintained, so unless you've got some C skills or can interest or pay a developer, you might be out of luck.
allan On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:25 AM, <mustek at ariplex.com> wrote: > Hi, I am new to the list. Why does my email not come through to the list? > > Do you know who I could ask concerning my scan problem with the Mustek A3 > USB?? > > Thank you, > > Aribert Deckers > > > ------------------------------------ > > Hello, > > I have a problem with a Mustek A3 USB for scanning xray film: > > Using SANE for scanning the transparency lid for scanning xrays is sending > light into the scanner, but the lamp in the scanner is not turned off > whilst scanning, so the xray film is lit from 2 sides and the scans are > very bad in quality. Even those parts of the xray film which have NO > silver on it, do not become white, but have a shady gray. > > Trying to scan with Windows 98 or Windows 2000, using the original driver > from Mustek, is a desaster as the scan area is automatically cut off, so > that the scan does not cover the full surface of the glas area but only a > stripe of, say, 10 cm or whatever the insane thing decides to take at the > very moment. I found no way of shutting off this automatism. > The scan result is a plain mess: varying of contrast and light will only > change from a striped picture which looks like a real bad foto copy with a > defect drum to a white background with sharp black spots on it. > BUT: with Windows the lamp is shut off! > > The scanner itself is a shame: the scans are not sharp: if the paper in a > reflective scan lifts of a mm from the glas, the picture is unsharp... > The cause for this seems to be the technique used by Mustek. The more > expensive scanners seem to have a better hardware. > > The problem with the sharpness is not related to the lighting. As the > sharpness is not my main concern right now, I only need a way to turn off > the lamp for scanning the xray films. The latest (and still very old) SANE > linux driver I downloaded, but the result is the same as before. > > Please note: > > The scanner is a Mustek A3 USB, not a Mustek A3 USB 600, 1200 or whatever. > > > What can be done with the SANE driver to work correctly? > > Thank you, > > Aribert Deckers > > > > -- > 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 > -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"