Hello Russ, may be your scanner is a relabled Astra 2200S (UMAX seems to mix the motherboards of some scanners in the last time). In this case the following may help:
Disbale the option "quality calibration" in the standard-options window of xsane or for scanimage use --quality-cal=3Dno Oliver Am Samstag, 14. Februar 2004 12:56 schrieb Russ Pitman: > Oliver Rauch wrote: > > Hello Russ, > > > > OK. Now I am sure that the driver uses the correct values. > > It is not a problem of the sane-umax driver. I guess it is a > > configuration problem of the scsi controller. Please make sure > > that you disabled "disconnect/reconnect" in the setup or > > configuration of your scsi controller - at least for the device > > ID of the scanner. > > > > When this does not help then we have to take a closer look > > at your scsi chain (termination, cable length, etc.) > > > > Oliver > > I reset the factory defaults for the controller card, it has a series o= f > options including 'Adapter Configuration' and 'SCSI Configuration'which > contained > SCSI Disconnection set at 'yes' to all (reset 'no' to all) > > Running scanimage -d umax:/dev/scanner fails as before, however using x= sane > to acquire a preview starts and runs and displays the image successful= ly, > which seems to indicate that the adapter chain is ok. > > Running 'scan' in xsane fails, I can hear the scanner attempt to start = then > the activity led shuts down. > > Sorry it took so long to think of trying xsane. --=20 http://www.xsane.org http://www.rauch-domain.de http://www.sane-project.org
