On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Bryn Nobbs wrote: > Hi all, im having a problem with my Lexmark all-in-one X1190, I am under the > impression the scanner is supported by the Lexmark backend but when I try to > scan anything firstly the scanner makes a lot of noise for around 30 > seconds, then it seems to find home and scan. The problem is that once it > has scanned I just get a lot of coloured stripes as the output? It looks as > though the scanner is working, but the backend isn't understanding what the > scanner is sending to it. > > Also if I run scanimage -T the scanner doesn't seen to do anything and the > program just hangs, if I press ctrl-c to quit it responds with trying to > stop scanner and then just hangs again, a second ctrl-c is required to exit, > then a reboot to get any functionality from the scanner again. Not sure if > it helps but the printer works perfectly, in fact its better than it was > under windows. I have included the output of scanimage -V if it helps, but > I'm at a loss! > > # scanimage -V > > scanimage (sane-backends) 1.0.18; backend version 1.0.18 > > > > also, not sure if this helps either, but im running Debian Unstable and have > installed sane-utils and sanelibs-dev from the Unstable repository. The > machine is a 266Mhz ARM based NSLU2 >
ah- another slug user. you have overclocked your slug to 266? can you try the scanner on an i386-type machine- the backend may have some alignment problems with the arm cpu. this is true for some other backends anyway. allan (kitno455) > > > Thanks for any help you guys and gals can supply me with! > > -- "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
