[sane-devel] Microtek sm3800

[m. allan noah]

get a log of the scanner in windows, and try to compare to logs of the
sane backend. Likely there is some missing command which sets the
motor in motion

http://www.pcausa.com/Utilities/UsbSnoop/

allan

On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Edward <edward at write-me.org> wrote:
> Hi-
>
> I have a Microtek ScanMaker 3800 scanner.  It uses the same chip (SCAN08) as
> other scanners supported by the sm3840 backend.  I modified the USB id in
> the sm3840.c (and sm3840.conf) files.  The scanner is now recognized with
> scanimage -L (though I still have a permissions issue when actually scanning
> and have to use sudo).  An image file is produced as output, but the lamp
> does not move to actually scan anything, so the image is blank.  It makes
> noises like the lamp is stuck, or moving the wrong direction.  I have tried
> multiple resolutions and modes, to no avail (I'll keep trying permutations,
> in case one works).  The entire story of things I've tried is here:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1515896  I've attached the output
> of scanimage -T, and the log of a 150dpi Color scan.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> -Edward
>
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