[sane-devel] sane-microtek2 scanner hangs itself

Mark Watkins scanomatek@yahoo.ca
Fri, 18 Feb 2005 02:27:13 -0500 (EST)


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I have a Scanmaker E3+ that works fine on WindowsXP.
On linux, I get as far as running:

scanimage -v > test.pnm

and get:

scanimage: 
scanning image of size 611x971 pixels at 24 bits/pixel
scanimage: acquiring RGB frame
scanimage: min/max graylevel value = 255/0
scanimage: read 0 bytes in total

or I might more occasionally get something like:
...
scanimage: read 1294336 bytes in total .

Either way, the scanner beam doesn't return to the
ready position, but hangs up somewhere halfway
through, and stays there. I have to switch the power
off and on to reset the scanner. Also, the test.pnm
output has a premature end of file failure.

Using Xsane or Kooka, I occasionally get a partial
preview. Much more often, the scanner makes all kinds
of happy noises, but the beam doesn't move more than
3 cm., and I get an image with 610 X 0 pixels.

I thought for sure this was a hardware breakdown until
I plugged the scanner into a Windows machine and
scanned with no problems, but now I'm flummoxed.

Also, a kind of a spooky thing I noticed, is that
microtek2.c is the only driver file that doesn't get
fontified when I open it in Xemacs. I'm not a C
programmer, and it still compiles okay, so I haven't
tried to deconstruct it. But it seems odd. This was
the case with both sane 1.1.5, and sane 1.1.3.

I hope someone can come up with a fix for this
problem, but any diagnostic suggestions would be
appreciated.

I've included the debug output as a zip, because
that's what the manpage asked for.

Thanks. Mark W.

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