Blackwidow 4800SP is really...

Jon Schneider (jschneider@cix.co.uk)
Fri, 30 Oct 1998 22:06:13 +0000

Thanks to a brilliant suggestion from Bernd to lookup the FCC ID
I can now confirm that my Blackwidow scanner is actually an
Ultima/Artec.

I am about to try that driver out connected to nasty 5340 card.

Hmmmm. Bypassing the check at line 800.
Also frigging get_cap_data to take a model name I give
it in an environment variable. There are three AT6, AT12 and A6000C
mentioned in the file.

Trying model AT6. 100dpi colour.

Eeeek - unexpected error on unit Schneider - The bloody thing works !

AT12, 300dpi. Three image copies side by side. Back to 100dpi.
Rams into end stop. Switch off scanner. PC hung.

One fsck later...
Model AT6

100dpi colour twice for luck. ok.
200dpi ok
300dpi. Loverly.
100dpi halftone. Fuzzy dither pattern though recognisable.
Oh that's right maybe ?
100dpi Gr[ae]y. Fine
Lineart. ok.
300dpi Gr[ae]y ok.

Let's try the A6000C.
Rams end even on preview which looks ok otherwise.
Think I'll leave that one alone.

Well I'm a happy bunny and am happy to cooperate with the driver
writer if required. Now to connect gimp...

So to recap, I disabled the check at line 800 commented
"Are we really dealing..."
and adjusted artec_get_cap_data to take an environment
variable in place of dev->sane.model in that first loop.

While I'm on can I suggest that "-g" is not used by default. Those
that want it can put it back. Everybody else has slower build times
and wasted space.

Jon

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