Re: Mustek 1200 SP Pro + aha152x + linux 2.4.3 = success

From: Ulrich Hopp (hopp@terminal-beach.de)
Date: Mon Apr 02 2001 - 13:26:37 PDT

  • Next message: Henning Meier-Geinitz: "Re: Mustek 1200 SP Pro + aha152x + linux 2.4.3 = success"

    Hi Henning,
    >
    > > kernel 2.4.3 + kernel 2.2.16:
    > >
    > > CVS Tree 1.11 + Mustek backendversion 1.0.105 (as delivered with the CVS
    > > ) doesn't work for me. The scanner tries to scan beyond the physical
    > > scanarea.
    >
    > I'm using Linux 2.2.18 at the moment with an Adaptec 2940. My scanner
    > doesn't scan beyond the physical scan area at least not in the modes I
    > tried. What did you do exactly? A preview scan or a full size scan?
    > In which resolution and mode?
    I tried to get the same error again, but I got different errors. I tried to
    aquire
    >
    > I'm asking all these questions because I don't think I have changed
    > anything concerning the Pro scanner between 104 and 105. But you never
    > know...
    >
    > > To use the TA I had to hardcode the TA_flag in the sources. It seems,
    > > that there is no special byte for the TA in the result string. But I may
    > > be wrong.
    >
    > It's not in the inquiry information like for the other Mustek scanners
    > but you can get the information from a "request sense" command. If a
    > TA is present, byte 2 of the sense buffer is 0x40, otherweise it's 0.
    > I have implemented that in my code but I'm not sure if it works. I
    > think I sent you the source some hours ago. If it doesn't work because
    > of the other problems maybe you can extract the detection cahnges and
    > try them in 104.
    >
    > > If I use the 36 bit option it only works if I start xscanimage directly (
    > > e.g. from a terminal box). Then the image is put directly into a file.
    > >
    > > Scanning with 36 bit with xscanimage as a gimp-plugin results in a KDE
    > > error message, which says that KDE can't handle the output. ( may be due
    > > to my KDE configuration)
    >
    > GIMP can't handle more than 8 bit/color. But you shouldn't get a
    > message from KDE but from xsane.
    >
    > > kernel 2.2.17 - 2.2.19 :
    > >
    > > system hangs if I try scanning with the option quality calibration.
    >
    > This doesn't happen here. Maybe this one and the "out of scan area"
    > problem are related to SCSI driver bugs? Can you test this with a
    > different SCSI controller?
    >
    > Thanks for the report.
    >
    > Bye,
    > Henning
    >
    >
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