[sane-devel] Lexmark X1190 scanning, but not, but then again it might be

[m. allan noah]

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
>
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> 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)

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> Thanks for any help you guys and gals can supply me with!
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>

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