On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 12:07:48AM +0200, Oliver Schwartz wrote: > Hi, > > On Monday 03 October 2005 18:43, Bauke Jan Douma wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 03:15:41AM +0200, Ulrich Deiters wrote: > > > I set the no-preview bit (source |= 0x40;) in snapscan-scsi.c > > > after line 922, and the problem vanished, i.e., the scanner > > > does a quick, undistorted scan of the whole scan area without > > > hanging itself. > > > > That's odd, I have a 3490, and --although I don't often use it-- > > I was under the impression that the few times I did use it, preview > > worked fine. I never experienced any 'hangs', and got a quick > > scan that looked and smelled like a preview. > > It's possible that the behaviour depends on the version of the > firmware. Maybe you can both check the version that you have in use. > The easiest way to identify the firmware version is to run > > strings esfw52.bin | tail
Hi Oliver, Yes -- I did send my firmware to Ulrich about a week ago for comparison, but he concluded the two were identical. That's why the problem he was experiencing and his current solution struck me as odd. Btw., I always like to do a `cmp -b' in addition. Greets. bjd
