I am suffering from some problem with my Flatbed UMAX Astra 6850. The main problem is that if a photo is scanned, a yellowish horizontal line is appear on it. Also some patterns are there in the scanned image (especially in darker area). The scanned image is full of grains. I have been suffering with this problem for the last one year.
Kindly do reply with solution Sincerely Krishnakumar B (Unni) ColourPencil Chalukunnu, Kottayam 686 001 Kerala, INDIA Mob. +919446962167 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/attachments/20061004/c08ae916/attachment.html From [email protected] Wed Oct 4 22:01:53 2006 From: [email protected] (Jose L. ) Date: Wed Oct 4 21:50:44 2006 Subject: [sane-devel] Re: Annoying "Out of MEmory Error..." In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> References: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> [email protected] wrote: > Hello over there, > > I own a Acer Flatbed scanner (620 ST) which I use rarely. So I can not > exactly tell you, when this error started to occur on my computer. > Anyway. Right now the kernel version is linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r8. > The system is based on gcc 4.1.1 and glibc-2.4 > Sane is uptodate: > sane-backends-1.0.18 > sane-frontends-1.0.14 > > # scanimage -L > device `snapscan:/dev/sg0' is a Acer FlatbedScanner17 flatbed scanner > > # scanimage > scanimage: sane_start: Out of memory > > access rights seem to be alright... > > Well, I did some research in the web and found that sometimes poeple > forgot to enable swaping, so I checked that, just to be sure: > # free > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 516112 182988 333124 0 45052 113784 > -/+ buffers/cache: 24152 491960 > Swap: 506008 0 506008 > Hm, seems to be OK, doesn't it? > > Does anybody have an idea, what the heck is going wrong, or how to get > rid of that problem? > I have the same problem and the same scanner. Even i had the same kernel version. Use the 2.6.15 kernel version and the problems go away. Try it!
