Hi, On Wednesday 27 April 2005 01:16, Union wrote: > > This should not make any difference. The major difference is the > > resolution you're working with! The preview does a scan at 75dpi and > > therefore the motor-settings are different from the 300dpi settings. > > I'm pretty sure, that the preview will give you the whining noise... > > > > Anyway, I'll crosscheck that here again. > > > > Ciao, > > Gerhard > > > > In a past few days I throughly tested scanner and amazingly not once it get > stuck or something similiar. It scanned fine all the way to 1200 dpi (I > didn't try more, but 1200 dpi is scanner hardware limit anyway). Preview > also works fine (as before). > > My whole process was: > 1. I was using 1.0.15 (I get a lot of troubles with motor stucknes etc.) > 2. I uninstall 1.0.15 and manually install snapshot (15. 04. 2005) > 3. Uninstall snapshot (make uninstall), make ebuild of snapshot and emerge > it. > 4. Again uninstalled it (unmerge, beacuse not been able to scan with 14 bit > depth) and install stable version (1.0.15) with portage and now, as said, > everything goes fine.
good to hear! But why couldn't you scan @ 14bit with the snapshot? Try use the extended options for setting the bit-depth. > Hmm, just one thought... > I am pretty sure that when I first compiled 1.0.15 I added USB support > (afterall, astranet is usb scanner), but in step 4 I didn't add it. Maybe is > that reason that everything works now. Very curious ;)... > > PS: emerge is a way to normally install programs on gentoo distribution > (just for those who don't know what that is :). Hmmm, it's not quite clear to me what really happens, but I'm sure, that is has nothing to do with the backend-code itself (famous last word ;) Gerhard >
