[sane-devel] scanimage: sane_start: Out of memory

[Rene Rebe]

Hi.

On: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 11:33:26 +0100,
    Henning Meier-Geinitz <henning at meier-geinitz.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 01:22:25PM +0100, Patrick Begou wrote:
> > When I'm trying scanimage I have the folowing error message:
> > 
> > $ scanimage --device avision:/dev/scanner >toto.pnm
> > scanimage: sane_start: Out of memory
> > 
> > My config:
> > -> HP Scanjet 5370C USB

Erhm. Well ok. The 5370 is not yet supported due to
yet-to-reverse-engineer-firmware-behavior ...

> The scanner is detected by sane-find-scanner? The hpusbscsi kernel
> module is loaded? Permissions for /dev/sg0 (or whatever device you
> use) are set up correctly? /dev/scanner does point to that device?
> 
> > I saw in the archives something with SANE_SG_BUFFERSIZE but I have no
> > /proc/sys/kernel/sg-big-buff file and my scanner is USB (not SCSI).
> 
> The scanner is SCSI-over-USB, that means, it uses the SCSI protocoll
> internally. So it should show up as a SCSI scanner with
> sane-find-scanner.
> 
> If it's detected by sane-find-scanner correctly, try setting the debug
> varaibaled: export SANE_DEBUG_AVISION=255. Maybe you can find out
> about the source of the problem.
> 
> Bye,
>   Henning

- René

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