On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 11:22 PM Jeffrey Walton <noloa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 3:27 PM Charlie Gibbs <cgi...@surfnaked.ca> wrote: > > > > I just upgraded my main machine from Buster to Bullseye; I have two more > > machines that I upgraded recently and they're running well so I decided > > to go for it on the machine on which I do my important work. The > > upgrade went smoothly and all in all works quite well. > > > > But then I tried scanning. I do a lot of scanning to PDF using xsane > > and an Epson WF-2760 all-in-one. Most of my scans are of printed > > documents in black and white (I use the Lineart setting in xsane). > > > > Last night I tried to do some scans for the first time since the > > upgrade. The xsane windows looked different from before; they opened in > > different locations on the screen and had different contents. The scans > > themselves looked nothing like what I was used to; the contrast was > > washed out (and adjusting the contrast slider doesn't help). When I > > scan a cheque the background causes random dots to appear - and there's > > no threshold slider to adjust this. > > > > The main xsane window added sliders for gamma, brightness, and contrast, > > which I didn't have before; there was no threshold slider, although > > on a subsequent run this slider appeared but seemed to have no effect. > > I've been getting inconsistent results - on one invocation the gamma, > > contrast, brightness, and threshold sliders disappeared, and now they > > all appear except for threshold. > > > > I tried copying the previous version of xsane back into /usr/bin from > > the backup I took before the upgrade, but that made no difference. > > Ditto for the configuration files in ~/.sane/xsane. This suggests > > that it's not the new version of xsane itself that is broken. > > > > I know this all sounds rather incoherent, but I don't seem to be getting > > coherent results. Is there an xsane expert who can help me restore the > > ability to scan black-and-white documents? (Colour and grayscale scans > > work beautifully, but that's not what I need right now.) If all else > > fails, is there another scanning package I could use in the meantime? > > In case it helps, here is the package info for xsane in Bullseye: > https://packages.debian.org/stable/xsane . On the right is the > Developer Information which includes testing results, bug reports and > maintainer information. > > It also looks like GIMP may have subsumed some of xsane's > functionality. Maybe things work better in GIMP than xsane.
This doesn't look good: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1013933 . Maybe its time to find a different front end. Jeff
