can you get a debug log of a small area scanimage run, and put it up on the web somewhere? post a link to it on this list.
allan On Wed, 31 May 2006, Alan Corey wrote: > I'm back with another UMax. I seem to be having a problem with the scsi > buffer > size setting. If I increase it from the default 32768 by even a small amount, > I get an out of memory error immediately on starting to preview. > > Using the default of 32768 I can preview and scan in line art and gray scale > modes, and scan small areas in RGB by skipping the preview or using scanimage. > If I try to preview in RGB mode I get an out of memory error after the scanner > has done its initial positioning or calibration. That's very different from > the timing of what happens if I increase the minimum and it dies as soon as I > click the Preview button. > > I'm wondering if it's because the backend is having trouble allocating memory > under OpenBSD. I've never done any programming under Linux, but OpenBSD (and > FreeBSD) use malloc(), and I don't usually have trouble getting memory. Or > isn't this just a simple matter of allocating memory? > > The box has 512 megs of RAM. SCSI card is an Adaptec 2940u. What tests > should > I try or what changes should I make? Actually for this application I'm > planning to use it in gray scale mode anyway, but it would be nice to have RGB > working. > > Thanks, > > Alan > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > -- "so don't tell us it can't be done, putting down what you don't know. money isn't our god, integrity will free our souls" - Max Cavalera
