Re: X6EL modes under OS/2?

joel@cs.rochester.edu
Mon, 28 Jun 1999 14:32:34 -0400

>From: Bernd Schroeder <Bernd.M.Schroeder@gmx.de>
>
>> The new os/2 compilation of SANE 1.0.1 gives me a core dump whenever I=20
>> try "36-bit Color" or "12-bit Gray" on my Microtek X6EL. My command=20
>> line is something like this:
>>=20
>> scanimage --device-name=3Dmicrotek2:b1t6l0 --mode=3D"36-bit Color"
>>trial.ppm
>>=20
>> Has anyone gotten either of these modes to work on a similar=20
>> configuration?
>
>1) With the version of the backend included in sane-1.0.1 the
> scan mode option has been split into two options. You can
> try instead something like this:
>
> scanimage --device-name=3Dmicrotek2:b1t6l0 --mode=3DColor --depth=3D8
>
> for a scan with 8 bit per color.
>
>2) Last time I checked scanimage didn=B4t support more than 8 bit
> at all. In fact, if you issue a scanimage command and specify
> a color depth of more than 8 bit scanimage tries to stop the
> scan by sending a cancel command to the device. There seems
> to be a bug in the backend, that it ignores a cancel during
> a scan (but not during a preview).
>
>3) Of course, scanimage or the backend should not segfault, when
> wrong parameters are specified. Actually this happens, when
> scanimage reads the OPT_BR_X option, but I am not yet sure,
> whether this happens, because the backend ignores the cancel
> command. This happens on Linux, too, and is not a problem of
> the OS/2 port.
>
>Bernd=20
>

That does explain my difficulties. Is scanimage the smallest available
executable file that includes the back end?

Incidentally, the new options do *not* seem to be recognized,
and the split isn't yet menioned in the help.

Thanks.

Joel Seiferas

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