I suggest at first you disable the autmatic scanarea selection in the preferences of xsane.
I will take a look at it. Oliver On Tuesday 24 June 2003 09:23, ope wrote: > I have found another 'behavior' that might shed some > light on the problems that I am having. When I do a > preview the interface auto selects a large square area > covering most of the scanner bed which I then > drag/resize to the actual image I am scanning (nothing > new here). What I have noticed with absolute > reliability is this: > > 1. If, after the preview, I can see the entire > outline of the selection box then the subsequent scan > will work. > > 2. However, If I can't see the entire selection box > then the scan will not work. What I mean by this is > that often times the bottom line of the selection box > is 'off' the window such that I can't see any bottom > line for selecting the image area only. If I put the > mouse on the bottom of the frame and drag up I can > select the scanning area. > > Does my explaination make sense? I can send screen > shots if it does not. > > It is as if xsane thinks that the scanner bed is > longer than it is. It oddly explains why the scanner > lamp has completed the scan and returned but the > software seems to be waiting for more data and is > getting bulk_msg: timeout messages. > > Does anyone have any ideas? > > --- ope <[email protected]> wrote: > > What I see in messages are a lot of messages saying: > > kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout > > last message repeated 2 times > > last message repeated 3 times > > ... > > > > and after 10 minutes or so I will see: > > kernel: scanner.c: read_scanner(0): excessive NAK's > > received > > > > > > --- Oliver Rauch <[email protected]> > > > > wrote: > > > On Tuesday 17 June 2003 09:39, ope wrote: > > > > I have also noticed another thing that is worth > > > > mentioning. At one point when the xsane seemed > > > > to > > > > > be > > > > > > > stuck I tried unplugging the scanner from the > > > > USB > > > > > > port. I was expecting xsane to fail and close > > > > > > down. > > > > > > > What actually did happen was that the complete > > > > > > scanned > > > > > > > image instantly popped up in the viewer and > > > > xsane > > > > > was > > > > > > > running as if nothing has happened. Just for > > > > fun > > > > > I > > > > > > > tried it couple more times and had the same > > > > > > results > > > > > > > each time. It appears to me that that the scan > > > > is > > > > > > essentially complete at the point that it is > > > > > > freezing. > > > > > > This sounds as if there is a problem with the USB > > > communication. > > > > > > Do you get any messages about USB problems > > > in /var/log/messages ? > > > > > > Oliver > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Sane-devel mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://www.mostang.com/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! > > http://sbc.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > > Sane-devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.mostang.com/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! > http://sbc.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > Sane-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.mostang.com/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel --=20 http://www.xsane.org http://www.mostang.com/sane http://www.rauch-domain.de mailto:[email protected]
