plustek@linuxhacker.org

On Monday 09 May 2005 02:35, Jonty wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have an Epson Perfection 1260 Photo and am running Sane-Backends
> 1.0.15 from the Gentoo portage.
> 
> When I attempt to scan any image in colour over 400 DPI the scanner
> behaves very strangely - in black and white it's fine to any resolution,
> but in colour, only to 400 DPI.
> 
> When I go over this limit, the scanner will scan in stops-and-starts,
> pausing for about a tenth of a second every now and then until it
> reaches the end of the bed, where it will attempt to keep scanning while
> making a nasty clunking sound. This will happen for about a minute, at
> which point the scanner will finish.
> 
> It seems that the scanner believes that the bed is bigger than it
> actually is, and I have no idea what the stopping-and-starting is all
> about.
> 
> Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated, this is driving me
> nuts!
> 
Hi,

could you please donwload the latest snapshot from sane-project.org,
compile, install and test?

This should fix this issue!
Gerhard