[sane-devel] Ubuntu 10.4 32 & 64 bit Platform - Canon MF6550 Scanner - sane via any frontend "Hangs" at 1st data transfer

[Nicolas Martin]

Yep, this one is perfect ;-)

Thanks

Nicolas

Le samedi 03 juillet 2010 à 15:13 -0500, Ron Parker a écrit :
> results after "git pull" and rebuild. Look better!
> 
> Ron
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nicolas Martin" <nicolas0martin at gmail.com>
> To: "Ron Parker" <mail at ronparker.us>
> Cc: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Sent: Saturday, July 3, 2010 3:30:12 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: [sane-devel] Ubuntu 10.4 32 & 64 bit Platform - Canon MF6550 Scanner - sane via any frontend "Hangs" at 1st data transfer
> 
> Thanks Ron for this log, it shows the MF6550 is working as expected.
> 
> By the way, this revealed a little weakness in the backend (see the
> messages in the log: "Inefficient skip buffer. Should be 75" that I
> should have fixed now, with the latest commit I've just pushed. 
> 
> So could you update your git files, give another try exactly as you did
> this one, and catch another scanimage.log, this one should not contain
> this warning message anymore.
> 
> Nicolas
> 
> Le samedi 03 juillet 2010 à 10:40 -0500, Ron Parker a écrit :
> > scanimage.log 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Nicolas Martin" <nicolas0martin at gmail.com>
> > To: "Ron Parker" <mail at ronparker.us>
> > Sent: Friday, July 2, 2010 3:32:16 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> > Subject: Re: Fwd: [sane-devel] Ubuntu 10.4 32 & 64 bit Platform - Canon MF6550 Scanner - sane via any frontend "Hangs" at 1st data transfer
> > 
> > Ron, 
> > 
> > Thanks for your message, unfortunately, the log you sent me is the
> > actual scanned image, not the scan log. 
> > 
> > Maybe you omitted in the scanimage statement the 2 before the >
> > You must run scanimage, after the export statement, like this: 
> > 
> > scanimage 2> scanimage.log
> > 
> > scanimage.log should be a text file.
> > 
> > Could you try again to get it ?
> > 
> > Nicolas
> > 
> > Le vendredi 02 juillet 2010 à 09:53 -0500, Ron Parker a écrit :
> > > (Log file too big for the list) Compression still leaves a file of over 1MB
> > > 
> > > Success so far.
> > > 
> > > The commands below are what I abstracted from the web page you referred
> > > me to. After building and loading the latest back-end library, a command
> > > line scan produced the log file that you requested. (Attached).
> > > 
> > > Additional scans with gscan2pdf, simplescan, and xsane all produced
> > > acceptable one page results. I cranked up the resolution to 300 dpi for
> > > one page, and there was no mis-behavior. My final test in this set was a
> > > multipage (via gscan2pdf) 150 dpi from the sheet feeder.The resultant
> > > PDF looked good.
> > > 
> > > re: maintaining this configuration. Will ubuntu offer me an update to
> > > the backend library via the package mechanism? Or, have I detached this
> > > library from ubuntu package management by building a custom and later
> > > release of the library?
> > > 
> > > Any other tests that you would like me to run? (How do I kill the env
> > > variable created by EXPORT?)
> > > 
> > > Ron
> > > 
> > > 
> > > #http://mp610.blogspot.com/2008/04/give-your-scanner-new-freshly-sane.html
> > > cd /usr/src
> > > git clone git://git.debian.org/sane/sane-backends.git
> > > cd sane-backends
> > > 
> > > #If you want later to update your git directory with the latest version
> > > #available from the public Sane git repository, in order to build the
> > > latest #Sane code, you just need to enter the following command, from
> > > the sane-#backends directory:
> > > # #$ git pull
> > > # make sure usb dev lib is installed
> > > 
> > > apt-get install libusb-dev
> > > 
> > > #This will download the latest changes to the files in your directory
> > > sane-backends.
> > > 
> > > ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
> > > 
> > > #This will choose /usr/lib/sane as SANE lib directory, /etc/sane.d as
> > > SANE #config files dir, and /var/lock/sane as state directory: The ones
> > > that are #used by Mandriva and Ubuntu.
> > > 
> > > make
> > > make install
> > > 
> > > echo '# libusb device nodes : change permissions to 666'
> > > >/etc/udev/rules.d/mylibsane.rules echo 'SUBSYSTEM=="usb",
> > > ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", MODE="0666"'
> > > >>/etc/udev/rules.d/mylibsane.rules
> > > 
> > > scanimage -V
> > > # Shows version . Should be GTEQ 1.0.21
> > > # Actual value in this test was 1.0.22 (1Jul2010)
> > > 
> > > scanimage -L
> > > # Shows Scanner
> > > # pixma_find_scanners() found 1 devices
> > > # device `pixma:04A92686_1665JDVj0000' is a CANON Canon imageClass
> > > MF6500 multi-function peripheral
> > 
> > 
> 
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