Simon Edwards wrote:
> Greets,
>
> Some news. My 620 is now recognised. Yay. Turned out to be a compilation
> problem. gggrrrr. The new scapscan backend wasn't being compiled and
> installed. (The Makefiles don't seem very good.. They don't seems to
> have the right dependances setup..) Ok, so now xscanimage starts up and
> detects the scanner. Try to get a preview image => Floating Point
> Exception of Death! The debug info says that the inquiry command just
> returns 0 for the number of bytes for the preview image. A division by
> zero probably comes quickly after that. bummer.
>
> Now, my theory for this is that the scanner is sleeping. On Win98 the
> scanner driver knows to "Warm Up" the scanner before it uses it. After a
> few minutes of inactivity the scanner goes back to the sleeping state.
> The driver can sense whether the scanner is sleeping. So, how do we wake
> up the scanner?
>
> Does anyone know of a SCSI bus sniffer for Win98?
>
> When I get time I'll try to do an experiment by 'waking' the scanner up
> under windows then quickly booting into Linux and sane...
My Acer 610plus wait for the scanner to warm up OK. The way it happens is
kind of annoying. You start xsane and nothing appears to happen until the
warm up has finished. Then the xsane windows appear. It takes a long time
for the scanner to time-out, and turn off its light, so I've yet to find
out what happens if you need to re-light the light while xsane is running.
Maybe the Acer620 doesn't work the same way, or maybe you are looking in
the wrong direction.
Steve
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