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Subject: Re: Black images from Umax 3450 on PowerPC Debian
From: Gerhard Jaeger
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 15:43:09 +0200

Hi Leandro,

On Monday 17 May 2004 15:07, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote:
> A solution, and missing details.
[SNIPSNAP]
> 	Now it has worked, for I have upgraded libsane and sane-utils
> to 1.0.14 from Debian testing.  Interestingly, sane itself is still
> 1.0.12 there...

What does this mean? Is it working now? I noticed, that I changed
something in the calibration code for big-endian machines w/o testing.

> 	Two nasty details yet:
>
> 1) Visualisation doesn't work properly.  It does get an image, but
> when it finishes constructing it on screen it refreshs, and the
> refresh makes it truly bad, very grained, even if some parts of the
> image remain good.

Hmmm, no idea, where this comes from, please try another frontend.

> 	Would a screenshot of this help?
Probably not.

> 2) Sometimes -- haven't been able to discern a pattern yet --
> digitalisation will make some ugly if not too loud noises when the
> lamp reaches the end of the scan bed, just before starting to return
> to its rest position.

That's somewhat known, but I have no solution for that, as it's not
reproducible :-(

Ciao,
  Gerhard