[sane-devel] Re: Sane-devel digest, Vol 1 #107 - 8 msgs

[Glenn Barry]

> Thanks to everyone that answered my query about the saned daemon.

To Clarify, my Indy only has an 8 bit graphics card, i.e 256 colours, not 8 bit as one would normally assume for
each channel, 8 bits total.

I have verified that the 16 bit scanning works fine running xsane locally, but not however over the network, I
get all sorts of amazing colours something like the rainbow effects of oil on water. I don't scan a lot of film
and negatives, which is best with 16 bit colour depth, but I will have to use the Indy in future when doing so,
until the bug can be fixed.

Just a note of thanks to both the Sane and XSane authors for some great software, it has given my Umax Astra
1220s a new lease on life.

BTW if I don't use the -d switch then XSane on Win32 is unable to find a device, I am however not troubled by
this.

Glenn

>
>
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 12:56:27AM +1100, Glenn Barry wrote:
> > I have a Umax Astra 1220s running on an SGI Indy, IRIX 6.5.14, and
> > using the network scan utility I have to telnet in, or switch seats
> > to start the saned daemon using the -d128 switch for it to work.
>
> The -d switch is only intended for debugging.
>
> > Also when using Xsane on Win 32and the saned daemon, My Indy only has
> > 8 bit graphics unfortunately, I only seem to get a junk image with 12
> > bit scanning, which the scanner supports, does anyone else have this
> > problem?? Using sane 1.08, downloaded from the SGI freeware site.
>
> Does local scanning work, e.g. with scanimage? Even if your display
> can only show 8 bits, e.g. gimp is able to convert the 16 bit tiff
> generated by scanimage --format=tiff to an 8-bit image.
>
> Several problems can occur: the backend could use the wrong byte-order
> for transferring the data to the saned, saned could get it wrong while
> transferring over the net, the netbackend, too, and finally the
> frontend.
>
> Bye,
>   Henning

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