It would seem that there are bugs in the avision backend for certain versions of certain hp machines. You are unlucky enough to own such a machine. There has been some discussion of reverting some recent changes and see if the situation improves. Are you willing to test patches?
allan On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:52 PM, J.S <bluedbs at gmail.com> wrote: > J.S wrote: >> Please ignore my recent post I made about "[sane-devel] xsane and scanimage >> crashes" which you can find here: >> ? ? ? >> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2009-March/024182.html >> >> The whole message didn't go through I don't know why, so I figure I make >> another new one adding more info >> to it. You can find the whole message here at pastebin: >> ? ? ? http://pastebin.com/f6149238 >> > Ok I managed to fix it. All I did was uncomment the following lines in the > avision.conf file located at > /etc/sand.d/ > > #option disable-gamma-table > #option disable-calibration > #option force-a4 > > Then I used xscanimage and it was able to scan, preview, and save my image > with no problems. But when > using xscan, it freezes and takes a lot of time to load up the program--I > mentioned that in my earlier > post. When it freezes, I kill the process then I try to use scanimage -L to > detect my scanner, but it > fails to detect it thus causing me to disconnect and connect my scanner > adapter then by using scanimage > -L it would detect the scanner. > > When I do use xscanimage to scan my images, it succeeds and even if I kill > the process, by using > scanimage -L it still detects my scanner no matter what. But when using > xscan, it freezes, fails to > detect my device, and if I kill the process and check with scanimage -L, it > fails to detect my scanner. > If you read my earlier post, I posted a small gdb error output regarding > xscan in the first paragraph. > It's not much but that's all I can bring up. > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > ? ? ? ? ? ? to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org > -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
