[sane-devel] Epson 3590

[Bauke Jan Douma]

On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 12:07:48AM +0200, Oliver Schwartz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Monday 03 October 2005 18:43, Bauke Jan Douma wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 03:15:41AM +0200, Ulrich Deiters wrote:
> > > I set the no-preview bit (source |= 0x40;) in snapscan-scsi.c
> > > after line 922, and the problem vanished, i.e., the scanner
> > > does a quick, undistorted scan of the whole scan area without
> > > hanging itself.
> >
> > That's odd, I have a 3490, and --although I don't often use it--
> > I was under the impression that the few times I did use it, preview
> > worked fine.  I never experienced any 'hangs', and got a quick
> > scan that looked and smelled like a preview.
> 
> It's possible that the behaviour depends on the version of the 
> firmware. Maybe you can both check the version that you have in use. 
> The easiest way to identify the firmware version is to run
> 
> strings esfw52.bin | tail

Hi Oliver,

Yes -- I did send my firmware to Ulrich about a week ago for
comparison, but he concluded the two were identical.

That's why the problem he was experiencing and his current
solution struck me as odd.

Btw., I always like to do a `cmp -b' in addition.
Greets.

bjd