SANE Support in Fedora 9 for HP

[Jeff Maxwell]

I have a very old HP OfficeJet 630 parallel port multifunction
printer/scanner/fax machine.

Prior to Fedora 9, I had no problems with xsane/sane recognizing the
scanner function.

After installing Fedora 9 and going to the Software Add to include the
HP support for sane, xsane still can not find my device.

I have installed it as a printer without any issues.

[Sam Varshavchik]

Jeff Maxwell writes:
> I have a very old HP OfficeJet 630 parallel port multifunction
> printer/scanner/fax machine.
>
> Prior to Fedora 9, I had no problems with xsane/sane recognizing the
> scanner function.
>
> After installing Fedora 9 and going to the Software Add to include the
> HP support for sane, xsane still can not find my device.
>
> I have installed it as a printer without any issues.

This scanner is not listed as a supported scanner by sane:

http://www.sane-project.org/sane-supported-devices.html

However, googling around suggests that there's some support in hplip:

http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/officejet/officejet_series_630.h...

Make sure you have the hplip rpm installed.

[Gabriel Ramirez]

Jeff Maxwell wrote:
> I have a very old HP OfficeJet 630 parallel port multifunction
> printer/scanner/fax machine.
>
> Prior to Fedora 9, I had no problems with xsane/sane recognizing the
> scanner function.
>
> After installing Fedora 9 and going to the Software Add to include the
> HP support for sane, xsane still can not find my device.
>
> I have installed it as a printer without any issues.

I, remember when setting my hp all in One, having to  exec "yum install 
libsane-hpaio" to detect the hardware, if that doesnt work in your case 
( my AIO is USB) but maybe also you can try the instructions in 
/etc/sane.d/dll.conf:

#
# The following backends are not included in the sane-backends distribution
# If you want to use them, download them from their webpages and read their
# documentation
#
# HP OfficeJet backend homepage: http://hpoj.sf.net/
# Uncomment the following line if hpoj is installed:
#hpoj

regards,

Gabriel

[Jeff Maxwell]

On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 22:00 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Jeff Maxwell writes:
> > I have a very old HP OfficeJet 630 parallel port multifunction
> > printer/scanner/fax machine.
> >
> > Prior to Fedora 9, I had no problems with xsane/sane recognizing the
> > scanner function.
> >
> > After installing Fedora 9 and going to the Software Add to include the
> > HP support for sane, xsane still can not find my device.
> >
> > I have installed it as a printer without any issues.
>
> This scanner is not listed as a supported scanner by sane:
>
> http://www.sane-project.org/sane-supported-devices.html
>
> However, googling around suggests that there's some support in hplip:
>
> http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/officejet/officejet_series_630.h...
>
> Make sure you have the hplip rpm installed.

Prior to attempting to us my OfficeJet for scanning, I installed it as a
printer using the System/Administration/Printing setup application.

Through this process, Fedora 9 recognized my printer.

Following the information, I checked to see that hplip was installed and
found that it was.  I included the graphical front end.  After
installing the graphical front end, the installation asked if I wish to
run the program.  I answered yes and it responded saying that it was
unable to find any devices the subsequently crashed.
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[Jeff Maxwell]

On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 22:00 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Jeff Maxwell writes:
> > I have a very old HP OfficeJet 630 parallel port multifunction
> > printer/scanner/fax machine.
> >
> > Prior to Fedora 9, I had no problems with xsane/sane recognizing the
> > scanner function.
> >
> > After installing Fedora 9 and going to the Software Add to include the
> > HP support for sane, xsane still can not find my device.
> >
> > I have installed it as a printer without any issues.
>
> This scanner is not listed as a supported scanner by sane:
>
> http://www.sane-project.org/sane-supported-devices.html
>
> However, googling around suggests that there's some support in hplip:
>
> http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/officejet/officejet_series_630.h...
>
> Make sure you have the hplip rpm installed.

It seems that the issue is between "root" and my local user.  If I sign
on under "root", the HP Device application has no problem finding my
OfficeJet.  Nor does it have any problems with the scan function.

If I am signed on as my local user, the system is unable to communicate
with the printer.

I did find that while going through the set up process for the printer
under my local sign in, that it asked for my password.  After typing it
in several times, I hit the cancel button.

There may be a disconnect where by the application is unable to
recognize my local sign on password.
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[Paul W. Frields]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 11:55:48PM -0500, Jeff Maxwell wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 22:00 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > Jeff Maxwell writes:
> > > I have a very old HP OfficeJet 630 parallel port multifunction
> > > printer/scanner/fax machine.
> > >
> > > Prior to Fedora 9, I had no problems with xsane/sane recognizing the
> > > scanner function.
> > >
> > > After installing Fedora 9 and going to the Software Add to include the
> > > HP support for sane, xsane still can not find my device.
> > >
> > > I have installed it as a printer without any issues.
> >
> > This scanner is not listed as a supported scanner by sane:
> >
> > http://www.sane-project.org/sane-supported-devices.html
> >
> > However, googling around suggests that there's some support in hplip:
> >
> > http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/officejet/officejet_series_630.h...
> >
> > Make sure you have the hplip rpm installed.
>
> It seems that the issue is between "root" and my local user.  If I sign
> on under "root", the HP Device application has no problem finding my
> OfficeJet.  Nor does it have any problems with the scan function.
>
> If I am signed on as my local user, the system is unable to communicate
> with the printer.
>
> I did find that while going through the set up process for the printer
> under my local sign in, that it asked for my password.  After typing it
> in several times, I hit the cancel button.
>
> There may be a disconnect where by the application is unable to
> recognize my local sign on password.

Is it possible you need the libsane-hpaio package installed?

[Jeff Maxwell]

On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 10:17 -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 11:55:48PM -0500, Jeff Maxwell wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 22:00 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > > Jeff Maxwell writes:
> > > > I have a very old HP OfficeJet 630 parallel port multifunction
> > > > printer/scanner/fax machine.
> > > >
> > > > Prior to Fedora 9, I had no problems with xsane/sane recognizing the
> > > > scanner function.
> > > >
> > > > After installing Fedora 9 and going to the Software Add to include the
> > > > HP support for sane, xsane still can not find my device.
> > > >
> > > > I have installed it as a printer without any issues.
> > >
> > > This scanner is not listed as a supported scanner by sane:
> > >
> > > http://www.sane-project.org/sane-supported-devices.html
> > >
> > > However, googling around suggests that there's some support in hplip:
> > >
> > > http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/officejet/officejet_series_630.h...
> > >
> > > Make sure you have the hplip rpm installed.
> >
> > It seems that the issue is between "root" and my local user.  If I sign
> > on under "root", the HP Device application has no problem finding my
> > OfficeJet.  Nor does it have any problems with the scan function.
> >
> > If I am signed on as my local user, the system is unable to communicate
> > with the printer.
> >
> > I did find that while going through the set up process for the printer
> > under my local sign in, that it asked for my password.  After typing it
> > in several times, I hit the cancel button.
> >
> > There may be a disconnect where by the application is unable to
> > recognize my local sign on password.
>
> Is it possible you need the libsane-hpaio package installed?

It is installed.  The curious situation is that I am able to use the
OfficeJet while signed on as "root" but not as my local user.  There
must be some setting that I am missing which allows the OfficeJet to be
used by others on the machine when they sign on as there normal user.
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