> Thanks to everyone that answered my query about the saned daemon. To Clarify, my Indy only has an 8 bit graphics card, i.e 256 colours, not 8 bit as one would normally assume for each channel, 8 bits total.
I have verified that the 16 bit scanning works fine running xsane locally, but not however over the network, I get all sorts of amazing colours something like the rainbow effects of oil on water. I don't scan a lot of film and negatives, which is best with 16 bit colour depth, but I will have to use the Indy in future when doing so, until the bug can be fixed. Just a note of thanks to both the Sane and XSane authors for some great software, it has given my Umax Astra 1220s a new lease on life. BTW if I don't use the -d switch then XSane on Win32 is unable to find a device, I am however not troubled by this. Glenn > > > Hi, > > On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 12:56:27AM +1100, Glenn Barry wrote: > > I have a Umax Astra 1220s running on an SGI Indy, IRIX 6.5.14, and > > using the network scan utility I have to telnet in, or switch seats > > to start the saned daemon using the -d128 switch for it to work. > > The -d switch is only intended for debugging. > > > Also when using Xsane on Win 32and the saned daemon, My Indy only has > > 8 bit graphics unfortunately, I only seem to get a junk image with 12 > > bit scanning, which the scanner supports, does anyone else have this > > problem?? Using sane 1.08, downloaded from the SGI freeware site. > > Does local scanning work, e.g. with scanimage? Even if your display > can only show 8 bits, e.g. gimp is able to convert the 16 bit tiff > generated by scanimage --format=tiff to an 8-bit image. > > Several problems can occur: the backend could use the wrong byte-order > for transferring the data to the saned, saned could get it wrong while > transferring over the net, the netbackend, too, and finally the > frontend. > > Bye, > Henning -- "I'm Packing you an extra pair of shoes, and your angry eyes, just in case." Mrs Potato Head Glenn Barry Photography 2/13 Gerroa Avenue Bayview N.S.W. 2104 Australia Ph (612) 9997 3431 Mobile 0415 279 366 E-Mail: mailto:gl...@acay.com.au Web: http://www.acay.com.au/~glenn
