[sane-devel] 44-10 vs epson 1250

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 18 October 2002 11:59, Till Kamppeter wrote:
>Epson Perfection 2450 works also without any problems.

To continue the saga, I rebuilt the kernel twice (Alan forgot to 
increment the minor number to -ac2 in the Makefile:) and re-enabled 
just the epson and plustek lines in /usr/local/etc/sane.d/dll.conf.

Then I tried to rebuild the iscan-1.3.0 package, but got googolbytes 
of include deprecated messages, and finally an exit on a couple of 
gigabytes of __gxx missing messages, so there is obviously a 
missing include package someplace in Payton Place.  BUT...., I 
think it did build the library before it puked, so I did a make 
install anyway.  I'll go 'locating' that one eventually unless 
epson has now released a newer driver than the 1.3.0 version I 
have.

Can someone supply the URL for that?

Anyway, after the second rebuild and reboot to 2.4.20-pre10-ac2 and 
all of the above putzing around, I am happy to report that at least 
at 300 dpi, it all works, both plustek and the epson gt-7200, with 
a slight quality edge going to the epson driver.

There is a slight shading variation over the field, and a couple of 
stripes that look as if the source images paper is folded then 
flattened again in the plustek output that isn't there in the epson 
drivers output, but generally speaking, if I hadn't seen the epson 
output, I'd be happier than that famous pig with the output of the 
plustek driver.

I did note that with the plustek driver, the real time updating of 
the preview image when an adjustment to the brightness slider was 
made no longer worked.  Also the autoadjust button didn't, so I 
assume none of them worked in real time.  And I use the daylights 
out of that stuff, so thats a major bummer!  Please, please fix.

That of course never worked with the iscan driver, one of my major 
dissapointments with epson.

So, the lesson here is: if ya wanna run bleeding edge kernels, skip 
2.4.20-pre10-ac1.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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