On Sat, 22 Sep 2001 04:59:10 +1130
Mike Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| On Friday 21 September 2001 19:29, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
| > I have installed an Agfa SnapScan 600 scanner via a Tecmar SCSI card.
| [snip]
|
| I assume you're using that godawful excuse for a program called Sane? Which
| version? Check to see that it really is thinking it's driving this agfa
| scanner. Best way is to remove ALL driver config files except the one you
| really want, from the /etc/inSane directory (and modify the conf file
| appropriately).
|
| I don't recall the syntax but you can turn on debug messages by setting them
| as environ variables along the lines of
|
| SANE_DEBUG_AGFA 1|2|4|8|16|32
|
| (Don't quote me, the man page sometimes lists them if the programmer can be
| bothered with these small niceties)
|
| The other error you could be experiencing is that you've, alternatively, set
| the scan dpi too high, and / or, have run out of memory to store the image
| (both equate to the same thing).
|
| PS I don't have such an animal, just bitter and twisted experiences with this
| ridiculous program.
I do agree. The config file madness is just that. I tried the version that
came with eD 2.4, then I updated to whatever the SANE page claimed was the
latest stable version.
I have heard rumors that thers is a better alternative to sane. I may go
searching for that now.
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