[PLUG] Xsane help, desperate

[wes]

On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 12:10 AM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>wrote:

> On Sat, 5 Jun 2010 21:48:30 -0700
> wes <plug at the-wes.com> dijo:
>
> >On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 9:26 PM, Mike Connors <mconnors1 at gmail.com>
> >wrote:
> >
> >> >
> >> > >http://www.sane-project.org/man/sane-plustek.5.html
> >> >
> >> > Thanks for the link. However, the config file already had the x-y
> >> > positions at 0. And that is all you can set. That is, you can set
> >> > the starting position of the x and y coordinates, but there is no
> >> > setting for image area.
> >> >
> >> > The fact that it is scanning the left 3.99 inches just fine leads
> >> > me to wonder if it has two eyes and one of them has gone blind.
>
> >> > Did you try using another scanning app, like say Kooka? I believe
> >> > it uses the same XSANE library. It would be a good control for
> >> > testing to determine if it really is a hw prob.
>
> >he mentioned in other posts that he not only tried other apps, but the
> >same apps on other OSes as well. it can pretty much only be a hardware
> >problem at this point.
>
> I only tried Jaunty and Hardy x86_64, live CDs. I wanted to try
> Windows, but I have it installed only in VirtualBox OSE. The OSE
> version doesn't do USB devices. And all the software I tried are
> just different front ends for the same sane scanning program.
>
> It does appear to be a hardware problem, but I haven't given up 100%
> yet.
>
>
maybe try a 32-bit version of one of those liveCDs?

-wes