[sane-devel] Canon LiDE30 errors when calibration isn't cached

[Gerhard Jaeger]

Hi,

strange behaviour :( 
Never saw this here. Please send us your logs.

Ciao,
  Gerhard

On Monday 30 August 2004 07:03, Rich J wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After trying and failing to get my Canon LiDE30 USB working on Gentoo
> 2.4.24 and 2.6.4 on a PC w/uhci and a laptop w/ohci, I finally got it to
> sort of work on the laptop running Gentoo 2.6.8, sane-backends 1.0.14-r4,
> and libusb 0.1.8.
>
> "scanimage -L" works great on each of the above kernels I tried, but all
> attempts to scan or preview an image cause the scanner bar to move to
> origin, then flash for 20-30 seconds and report "sane_read: Error during
> device I/O" and abort.  I somehow managed to create a
> ~/.sane/Canon-N1240U_LiDE30.cal file while testing (no idea how!), and now
> it works great.
>
> If I remove the file, it doesn't matter what "option cacheCalData" is set
> to -- it always fails.  Move the file back and all's well.
>
> So, how does the cache file get created?  I'm assuming at some point when
> "option cacheCalData" is set to 1, but if I try it now, no file gets
> created and I get the error above.
>
> Anyone who's got a successful run at this care to share their setup?
> Thoughts?
>
> TIA,
> Rich
>
> p.s.  If anyone needs lengthy debug output or full files, let me know and
> I'll post them.