On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 7:05 AM, angler31 <angler31 at bigfoot.com> wrote: > just got this device and I noticed it makes an awful noise at times, > coincident > with the carriage being seemingly "stuck" at the rail end. On these > occasions > the resulting image (if any) is usually cut at the bottom and the top shows > a black band. The issue is frequent, but seemingly random. > The device performs flawlessly under Windows XP. > > Any hint will be greatly appreciated. > (ubuntu 9.10/amd64, sane 1.0.14, libsane 1.0.20, sane-plustek backend) >
I have this scanner with the latest sane/libsane/xsane under Gentoo (which I'm about to update). It also has the same problems on occassion. Sometimes unplugging and replugging the device helps if it gets stuck when starting to scan. I also get problems more recently with doing 16-bit scanning that are unrelated to the hardware... but those are for another post. -- Kelly "STrRedWolf" Price http://strredwolf.furrynet.com
