[sane-devel] Gradually increasing scan times

[Karl O. Pinc]

On 2003.04.14 03:27 Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 01:36:41AM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
> > >Could you run scanimage or xsane or another frontend with the
> > >environment variables SANEI_DEBUG_SANEI_SCSI=255 and
> > >SANE_DEBUG_HP=255? Perhaps this will give us a clue, what is going
> on.
> >
> > I get no output, unless it's writing some log file somewhere I don't
> 
> > know
> > about.
> 
> The debug output goes to stderr. And it's quite unusual to diable the
> debug messages. On the other hand, it's a very old package...
> 
> > Apparently, the rpm I installed does not have debugging enabled.
> > (And this is the one I can't recompile. :(  )
> 
> To make sure, try:
> 
> SANE_DEBUG_DLL=255 scanimage -L
> 
> If this doesn't pront anything, debugging is disabled.

That was very helpful.  Turns out that many of the backend librarires
did not have softlinks to the *.so.1 from the *.so.1.0.11 files.

Rpms from contrib.redhat.com:

[kop at mofo kop]$ rpm -qa | grep sane
sane-frontends-1.0.10-1
xsane-0.90-1
xsane-gimp-0.82-3.1
sane-backends-1.0.11-1


> 
> > [root at mofo xsane]# ( export SANEI_DEBUG_SANEI_SCSI=255; export
> > SANE_DEBUG_HP=255; scanimage -d hp:/dev/sg3 | xloadimage stdin )
> 
> SANE_DEBUG_SANEI_SCSI=255, not SANEI_DEBUG. But the HP one is correct.

So, now this hangs the box.  It looks like the modem still works but X 
is
hung along with the keyboard and mouse.  I get 1 character from the 
keyboard
when on a virtual console and then nothing after that.

I'm inclined to let it lie at this point and just declare my scanner 
broken
because I don't have more time to mess with it.   Maybe upgrading all 
the
software to a newer disto release with fix things.  (Later.)

Thanks for all the help

Karl <kop at meme.com>
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