Re: snapscan vs. acer 310S

From: Russ Burdick (grub@extrapolation.net)
Date: Sun Jun 11 2000 - 22:17:29 PDT

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    On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Steve Underwood wrote:
    >
    > If you still have the box your scanner came in, look at it. It says "Acer
    > Vuego 310S", in big letters. There is only one model 310S, but somehow in the
    > history of the snapscan driver it has been confused as being 2 fairly similar
    > machines.
    >

    nope, it says "AcerScan Prisma 310S". i wasnt able to find "Vuego" written
    anywhere on it. even the sticker on the side with the serial number and
    all that says "Model Name: ACERSCAN Prisma 310". findscanner reports this,
    which i believe is the same as the vuego based on what i've read in the
    source:

    # devel/sane-1.0.2/tools/find-scanner
    find-scanner: found scanner "Color FlatbedScanner_4 0181" at device /dev/scanner
    find-scanner: found scanner "Color FlatbedScanner_4 0181" at device /dev/sg3
    find-scanner: found scanner "Color FlatbedScanner_4 0181" at device /dev/sgd

    > The oddness of your scan is, in itself, odd. At first I thought something odd
    > happens every 8192 bytes. That idea fits some of your pictures. It doesn't
    > seem to fit out2.png, though. The dirty blue changes to dirty green over a
    > substantial block of lines. That doesn't seem to fit the model of a simple
    > hiccup in the data stream, even allowing for the chroma offsets, which the
    > latest driver compensates for.
    >

    the scans were using xscanimage into pnm's and then converted into png
    with xv if that matters. i just put all the raw pnm's online in a tar.gz
    in case you (or anyone else) wants to see them.

    > A couple of questions. What OS and version are you using? I tested the latest
    > driver with a RedHat 6.2 installation. That has the recently updated generic
    > SCSI driver, which may be a factor. At what resolution were these scans
    > performed? It makes a difference when trying to allow for the chroma offset
    > compensation analysing your weird results.
    >

    redhat 6.2. i tested this with sane-1.0.2 and both its stock snapscan
    drivers and the updated ones. tried with kernel 2.2.15, 2.2.16, and
    2.4.0-test1. i didnt go download a specifically updated sg driver, but i
    can try tat too. i remember reading something about that on the list, but
    i dont have the url handy. if you do, i'd appreciate it.

    as for resolution, i think the first two color ones were 300 and 100 dpi,
    the greyscale ones might have been 300, 100, 100 respectively, but i dont
    remember for sure. if there's a particular set of tests that i should run,
    just let me know.

    > One thing worth trying - in snapscan.c you will find a bit that goes:
    >
    > if (pss->pdev->model == PRISA620S /* GP added - blocking mode only */
    > ||
    > pss->pdev->model == VUEGO610S) /* SJU added */
    > {
    > status = SANE_STATUS_UNSUPPORTED;
    > }
    > else if (pipe (pss->rpipe) != -1)
    > {
    >
    > Change it to go:
    >
    > if (pss->pdev->model == PRISA620S
    > ||
    > pss->pdev->model == VUEGO310S
    > ||
    > pss->pdev->model == VUEGO610S)
    > {
    > status = SANE_STATUS_UNSUPPORTED;
    > }
    > else if (pipe (pss->rpipe) != -1)
    > {
    >
    > and see what happens.
    >

    the results look the same to me, but i put a bunch online
    anyway. http://www.cs.umn.edu/~wburdick/sane/ again, but these ones are
    out6-11. all 6 are of the same area. 6+7 are 100dpi, 6greyscale, 7
    color. 8+9 are 200dpi, 8grey, 9color. 10+11 are 300dpi, 10grey, 11color.

    any other suggestions?

    Russ

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