On Tue, May 30, 2006 5:58 pm, m. allan noah wrote: > On Tue, 30 May 2006, Jim McQuillan wrote: > >> I'm trying to get a Fujitsu 5120C working with SANE. >> >> I've tried version 1.0.17 of the backends, and i've also tried a fresh >> checkout from cvs today (5/30/2006). > > use the cvs checkout. > >> >> The scanner is detected just fine under both versions of the backends. >> >> I'm using a SCSI interface. >> >> When I try to scan with the scanimage command, I get: >> >> scanimage: sane_read: Invalid argument >> >> I turned on debugging with SANE_DEBUG_FUJITSU=128 >> and I see in the logfile: >> >> >> [fujitsu] sane_get_parameters: finish >> [fujitsu] sane_read: start >> [fujitsu] read_from_scanner: start >> [fujitsu] read_from_scanner: ERROR side:0 want:4203144 room:528/65536 >> doing:0 >> done:7656 >> [fujitsu] sane_read: finish >> [fujitsu] sane_close: start >> [fujitsu] do_cancel: start >> > > hmm- the issue is that 'room:528' part. what front-end are you using, and
I'm using scanimage for my testing. Is there something else I should try? Ultimately, I'll be doing this with Python, but I figured I'd do my initial testing of the scanner with scanimage. I'll look at it later tonight, to see if another front end works. THanks, Jim McQuillan j...@ltsp.org > why does it give us such a tiny buffer? we cannot request such a small > piece from the scanner, we have to request whole scanlines. your scanning > params must be such that a single line is larger than that? > > if you read the code, you will see this, right above that error message: > > /* this should never happen */ > > which tells you something: expect the unexpected :) > >> So, is the fujitsu driver at a point, where I should expect the 5120C to >> work? >> I'm just trying to figure out if i'm looking at a driver problem, or a >> configuration problem on my end. >> > > yes- you have excellent timing, the backend has just been nearly > completely re-written, and the 5120 should work quite well. the problem is > your frontend. though there are some speed issues, which are hopefully > about to be resolved... > > allan > fujitsu backend maintainer > >> Thanks, >> Jim McQuillan >> j...@ltsp.org >> >> >> > > -- > "so don't tell us it can't be done, putting down what you don't know. > money isn't our god, integrity will free our souls" - Max Cavalera > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > to sane-devel-requ...@lists.alioth.debian.org >
