Feedback

It is always welcome if people report success or ideas for new features. Please also think about the possibility to donate to this project since developing such a high-quality and cross platform driver takes a lot of time.

Mailing list

To subscribe to the sane-avision mailing list, send a mail with the subject subscribe sane-avision to lists@exactcode.de. The list will get Subversion commit mails as well as milestone reports. In addition the list is open for general discussion and users are free to ask quetions, outline problems, ask for improvements or just report success.

Reporting bugs/problems

Since I have not all the hardware with all possible features, it might happens from time to time that the backend does not work optimal with a scanner - or maybe doesn't do anything with a new scanner at all.

The first step is to make sure you used the latest Backend version (where the problem might be already fixed). (See Getting the source and Compiling the latest Avision backend above.)

If the latest version still fails, you need to generate some debug information:

export SANE_DEBUG_AVISION=7
scanimage -l 5mm -t 5mm -x 15mm -y 15mm 2> scanner-name.log > scanner-name.png

(It is also possible to use any SANE based application (even GUI based like xscanimage, xsane or kooka) to generate the log. Simply start the GUI application in a xterm (or gnome-terminal, konsole, ...), do the "export SANE_DEBUG_AVISION=7" and start you GUI application in the same terminal)

And send a detailed textual (plain ASCII text please!) information about the problem, the log and image data (if any) to René Rebe.