[sane-devel] canon again

Czeh Tamas garfy@tar.hu
Tue, 26 Mar 2002 18:32:47 +0100 (CET)


Hi!

Thank you!
Now, the is xsane started :) I am happy, but i got strange
colors. i tried to calibrate, but i think its not enough.
and...
if i make a preview, the xsane is die.

i made a scan under windows (vmware-windows) and the colors are nice
there. 


Garfy


On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Matthew Duggan wrote:

> Thanks for the debug output,
> 
> I had a talk to Simon about this (who I beleive also emailed you - we're
> too fast for our own good), and frankly your setup looks fine, so we
> have no idea what's wrong.  Since we'll probably see this kind of thing
> a lot, I've just written a patch that adds a configuration file option
> of "force_nibble".  This will force the driver into "nibble" mode(which
> is the most reliable mode).  Unfortunately it's about 1/2 the speed of
> ECP mode - which is why we try using ECP mode if it's available.
> 
> I have just posted the patch as SANE 1.0.7 Patch 4 on the sourceforge
> site.  Sorry, this will mean rebuilding SANE from a fresh copy.  I
> assure you, I know how long it takes!
> 
> Once you have it built and installed, edit
> /usr/loca/etc/sane.d/canon_pp.conf
> 
> Add a line that just says:
> force_nibble
> to the end.
> 
> Once you've done that, you should be ready to go!  If you have any more
> trouble give me or Simon a yell.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Matthew Duggan