Interested in scanning?

[Nicu Buculei]

On 06/05/2009 01:23 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote:
>
> I think a good start would be making a list of problems seen in setting
> up scanners (additional packages required, tweaks), and make sure that
> gnome-scan and the necessary plugins are installed in a default
> installation.

My experience with scanning in Fedora is so awful that I dropped any 
expectation: I have an old HP ScanJet 5370C, for which according with 
sane-project.org the support is "Good" (avision backend). For me the 
best was around F9, when it worked 50% of the time: a scan operation 
produced garbage, the next one was usable, the next one garbage and so 
on. I always had to scan twice to get something acceptable.

F8 and earlier it produced garbage most of the time and in F10 the 
application just got frozen, doing nothing and I had to kill it.

Now F11 is a new low: when pressing the scan or preview buttons from 
either xsane-gimp or gnomescan the result is X crashing and me seeing 
the GDM screen.

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