plustek@linuxhacker.org

Hello I have Windows 9.....ehhh....just kidding just kidding. I run Suse 
7.1 (horray!!!!!) and I have a Plustek 4831P scanner.
I have the sane-1.0.4-3 package installed and the plustek-0.40-17 module.

My system recognizes the scanner perfectly (so I didn't have any 
problems with the installation) and it scans pretty well. But (there is 
always one but(t) behind everything...hahahaha) when I scan color images 
something strange happens with the colors. Do you know this effect in 
some graphics programs (the colorize effect) where you can shift all the 
RGB values towards one end of the spectrum? Well...thats what 
happens...and all the colors shift to the Cyan (when speaking for the 
CMY plane) so i end up with a pink sortof image.
When I scan greyscale or with lower depth settings it works fine.
Any ideas?
I will just paste some system settings that might help. By the way I am 
also using a Cannon BJC-1000 and an Iomega Zip drive on the same 
parallel port but I had this configuration for years with other Linux 
distro's and even with the same one. I recently moved from Windows to ME 
(and that's for good now) and this is the first time I noticed my 
scanner behave in this way.

Ok...ere we go:

/etc/modules.conf

# SCANNER stuff
alias char-major-40     pt_drv
pre-install pt_drv modprobe -k parport
options pt_drv lampoff=180 warmup=15 port=0x378 lOffonEnd=0 mov=0 
slowIO=0 forceMode=0




root@odysseas:/etc > lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
parport_probe           3536   0  (autoclean)
parport_pc              7600   1  (autoclean)
pt_drv                110096   0  (autoclean)
parport                 7920   1  (autoclean) [parport_probe parport_pc 
pt_drv]
bttv                   33600   0  (autoclean)
i2c                     3968   1  (autoclean) [bttv]
videodev                2688   2  (autoclean) [bttv]
snd-pcm-oss            16736   0  (autoclean)
snd-pcm-plugin         13968   0  (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-mixer-oss           4096   1  (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
usb-uhci               20064   0  (unused)
usbcore                52528   1  [usb-uhci]
8139too                13760   1  (autoclean)
snd-seq-midi            3024   0  (unused)
snd-seq-midi-event      2816   0  [snd-seq-midi]
snd-seq                38784   0  [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-midi-event]
snd-card-ens1370        1920   1
snd-ens1370             8128   0  [snd-card-ens1370]
snd-pcm                29056   0  [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-ens1370]
snd-timer               8800   0  [snd-seq snd-pcm]
snd-rawmidi             9248   0  [snd-seq-midi snd-ens1370]
snd-seq-device          3600   0  [snd-seq-midi snd-seq snd-rawmidi]
snd-ak4531-codec       14320   0  [snd-ens1370]
snd-mixer              22064   0  [snd-mixer-oss snd-ens1370 
snd-ak4531-codec]
snd                    33408   1  [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin 
snd-mixer-oss snd-seq-midi snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-card-ens1370 
snd-ens1370 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device 
snd-ak4531-codec snd-mixer]


lots of crap !!! :D



zograf@odysseas:~ > cat /proc/pt_drv/device0/info
Model       : 600P/6000P
Portaddress : 0x378
Portmode    : EPP (fast I/O, autodetect)
Buttons     : 0
Warmuptime  : 15s
Lamp timeout: 180s
mov-switch  : 0   <---i tried 6 as well...doesnt change anything
I/O-delay   : 0
CCD-Type    : NEC/TOSHIBA Type
TPA         : no

oh...and I tried to disable the IEEE thingy....doesnt change anything 
either.

My kernel is the 2.2.22....and I cannot think of anything else to say 
really.

Thank you
Vasileios Zografos