Hmm...well maybe its not quite fixed :). After a number of different setups I discovered that my UMAX MX3 disliked having the scsi chain messed with unless it was also power cycled. I can setup my chain pretty much how I like and as long as I turn EVERYTHING off and then everything on again the blank previews disappear. Great I thought at least I can use everything :) .. well the previews are coming out fine...but when I hit start in xsane to do the real scan...the scanner does its inital calibration move (sounds like its moving a couple of centimeters really slowly..this is normal with other OSs as well) then it starts scanning...xsane reports its scanning...it sounds good. But it only lasts a few seconds about 3 ... then xsane reports it is saving and then converting the image. Obviously the image is not what it should be...it appears to be a couple of wide bands of shades of grey going form top to bottom of image.
Again I am using a Buslogic BT-946C w linux 2.4.7 driver V 2.1.15 .. the other things on my scsi chain have always seemed to be working ok...2 cdroms and a zip drive. I am not sure that this is a sane/xsane issue but it feels like it..I am going to try and get my win95 partition running to make 100% sure this whole setup will work under another set of OS/Applications. Thanks for any help or ideas -denis On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 11:48:05PM -0400, Denis Hainsworth wrote: > Ok I got it to work. The problem...as always is SCSI :) I have found at > least one configuraton that actuallly produces scans. its all pretty > nifty when it works , now I just need to get better cables or drop the > zip drive or something...blah. > > Anyway thanks for the responses and sorry for the bother. > > -denis > > On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 12:11:51PM -0400, Denis Hainsworth wrote: > > hey folks > > > > having an annoying problem...was wondering if anyone knew of any > > debugging tools or info that might help here... > > > > Under Linux 2.4.7 (and 2.2.16) using sane 1.0.5 I have connected to my > > Buslogic fast scsi PCI card an external ZIP, CDRW, and Astra scanner. > > > > This combo worked fine on my mac ... decided I'd like to use it all off > > of my linux box. Moved the stuff over ... ended up upgrading to 2.4.7 > > to get rid of some odd scsi problems when removing devices. can access > > and use everything... > > > > sane/xsane talk to the scanner fine it seems...can turn the lamp on and > > off .. however every scan and preview just gets me a blank page. The > > lamp is on the scanner head moves in what seems to be a correct manner. > > > > I have tried rearranging the scsi devices on the chain...same thing. > > > > Is there any way to tell if sane/xsane is getting the data but not > > interperting it right? Sane seems to be detecting the scanner as a 2200 > > not an MX3. I think that should be ok but perhaps thats the problem? > > > > So any ideas would be most welcome. > > > > -denis > > > > -- > > > > _____________________________________________________________________________ > > Denis Alan Hainsworth | http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~denis/ > > de...@cs.brandeis.edu | "Life is just one big sad christmas." > > _______________________________________________ > > Sane-devel mailing list > > sane-de...@www.mostang.com > > http://www.mostang.com/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > > -- > > _____________________________________________________________________________ > Denis Alan Hainsworth | http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~denis/ > de...@cs.brandeis.edu | "Life is just one big sad christmas." > _______________________________________________ > Sane-devel mailing list > sane-de...@www.mostang.com > http://www.mostang.com/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel -- _____________________________________________________________________________ Denis Alan Hainsworth | http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~denis/ de...@cs.brandeis.edu | "Life is just one big sad christmas."
