plustek: I killed my Epson perfection 1260 photo. Twice.
Subject:
Re: I killed my Epson perfection 1260 photo. Twice.
From:
Gerhard Jaeger ####@####.####
Date:
24 Oct 2002 07:47:40 -0000
Message-Id: <200210240946.19424.gerhard@gjaeger.de>
Hi there,
now that we have some reports on damaged EPSON devices,
we should try and find out what is common to them except
that the scanners are dead. Although I cannot believe that
the plustek-backend has killed them, we should find out what
happens.
Here are some points:
- scanner stopps, backend segfaults:
--> what comes first?
--> syslog messages?
--> scan settings (area, resolution, color-depth)?
- scanner does not work anymore:
--> what part has been killed (motor, lamp, sensor)?
To be honest, I think that during the development of
the driver quite a lot of my test-devices had reached some
states that were not good for the hardware, but they never
stopped working! I'm not sure if it is possible to kill the motor
by setting some strange PWM settings - at least the motor
won't move.
The other point is, that I do not have any EPSON device,
so I live from the feedback and settings I got from you out
there.
Anyway, I hope that we can find out what's going on there,
but I don't believe, that EPSON will ever admit that they have
problems with a device...
Regards,
Gerhard
