OT: problems with xsane

[Geoffrey Leach]

The Brother DS-640 is a USB-interfaces document scanner. I've been
attempting to use it with the Xsane app. All I get is a 1/2" vertical
stripe.

AFAIK there is no option to Xsane that effects the displayed scan.
OTOH, I've tried two DS-640 with the same result

Any pointers?  Thanks.

[Tom Horsley]

On Sun, 15 May 2022 12:46:53 -0700
Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> Any pointers?

I was surprised to find my scanner working with xsane recently.
Before it worked, I'd always run a windows virtual machine
and forward the usb device to the VM so I could use the working
windows drivers and store scanned images on the host machine via
a mounted smb filesystem.

Extreme kludgery, but it did function.

[ToddAndMargo]

On 5/15/22 12:46, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> The Brother DS-640 is a USB-interfaces document scanner. I've been
> attempting to use it with the Xsane app. All I get is a 1/2" vertical
> stripe.
>
> AFAIK there is no option to Xsane that effects the displayed scan.
> OTOH, I've tried two DS-640 with the same result
>
> Any pointers?  Thanks.

Try simple scan