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[NoOp]

On 07/19/2007 06:09 PM, das দাশ wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 11:48 -0700, NoOp wrote:
>> Cool! You/we might also send a snail mail letter to Canon directly. A
>> fellow over on another newsgroup has a CanoScan 8600F that he can't
>> get
>> working in Ubuntu so he wrote a letter to Canon USA. He got a phone
>> call
>> back from the Assistant to the President for Corporate Customer
>> Relations. The APCCR "suggested that letters like mine are looked at
>> more seriously than they had been in the past and he encourages letter
>> be written accordingly."
>> 
> 
> But, the experience is not seamless. Encouraged by the news of the
> 'scanbuttond' thing I started one scanning job that was pending for some
> time. And within say fifteen or sixteen scans I had to restart the
> 'scanbuttond' and 'xsane' three or four times. After one or two
> 'preview' or three or four scans, the output is getting blank. I don't
> know if you will tag it 'working' at all. 
> 
> 

You might want to try setting the timings:
<https://bugs.beta.launchpad.net/baltix/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/85488/comments/200>

[https://bugs.beta.launchpad.net/baltix/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/85488]