[sane-devel] Using "scanimage" under Gentoo

Dr Rainer Woitok rainer.woitok at gmail.com
Fri Feb 14 13:28:16 GMT 2020


Olaf,

I promised to run tests  using the current version of "sane-backends" as
well as my Canon Pixma scanner.   I used a three sheets, six pages color
original and scanned with "--source 'ADF Duplex'":

Test 1: Run with "export SANE_DEBUG_BJNP=127".   After scanning the 4-th
        page successfully, the scanner started to pull in the last sheet
        before the second sheet was completely moved out of the way, re-
        sulting in the scanner's hard- or firmware  pulling some sort of
        emergency brake and stopping the scan.

Test 2: To see whether this was just the debog-output getting in the way
        I did this test WITHOUT specifying "export SANE_DEBUG_BJNP=127".
        This time the scanner totally "forgot"  to scan the reverse side
        of the  second sheet,  immediately scanned  the last sheet,  and
        then claimed the scan to having been successful.   Sorry, no de-
        bug data available :-(

Test 3: Again with "export SANE_DEBUG_BJNP=127".   This test did produce
        six correct page images without throwing any errors.

Test 4: Again with  "export SANE_DEBUG_BJNP=127".   This test,  too, did
        produce six correct page images without throwing any errors.

Test 5: Without exporting "SANE_DEBUG_BJNP".  Ran successfully.

So two out of five tests failed, and they failed in different ways, ind-
icating that there might be still timing or communication problems.

I've compressed the debug output  from tests 1 and 3,  but the files are
still huge:

   $ ls -l *.bz2
   -rw------- 1 rainer rainer 28659462 2020-02-14 13:35 paperjam.log.bz2
   -rw------- 1 rainer rainer 56919612 2020-02-14 13:37 success.log.bz2
   $

As per your suggestions  I'll send these files  in two separate mails as
attachments to both, yourself and the list and will leave it to the list
moderator to decide.

Sincerely,
  Rainer



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