[sane-devel] HP Scanjet 5300c

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 07:08:35AM -0500, Adam Ritchie wrote:
> Hi all, has anyone got the hp 5300c to work with sane 1.0.9 or 1.0.10?  I just 
> recently downloaded, compiled and installed 1.0.10 without any problems.  
> When I try to scan something, it gets about 11 or 12% through the scan and 
> then the scan hangs and about 1 minute later - linux crashes.

Linux crash == kernel bug. Do you get an oops (blinking leds in X, at
least with recent kernels)?

> I am running MDK 8.1, kde 3.0.3, kernel 2.4.18.  I am just curious as
> to what the avision.conf should look like.  Scanimage -L finds the
> scanner no problem at /dev/sg0.  Do I need to leave the buffer size
> at the default of 128k or should that be changed?

Try to change it (set SANE_SG_BUFFERSIZE variable).
As I don't know much about Avision scanners, I can only guess.

Did you try to disable calibration in avision.conf? Maybe that works
around the problem with the big buffer.

Did you see the thread about a similar issue with the hp 5370 in the
archive? Subject is: [sane-devel] scanimage: sane_start: Out of memory

Bye,
  Henning