HP Scanner Difficulties

Gerry Tool gstool at earthlink.net
Wed May 5 02:32:04 UTC 2004


Jason Knight wrote:
>    I am trying to get my multifunction HP psc 1210 to scan properly. 
> Kudzu autodetected it, I have hpoj and hpijs installed and updated to 
> most recent, yet sane is giving me a headache. I have tried the 
> solutions listed above for the epson printer (change permission of 
> /proc/bus/usb/003/002 and to mess around with /etc/sane.d/hp.conf) yet 
> scanimage -L says no scanner found. /etc/sane.d is setup properly with 
> hpoj uncommented at the end and sane-find-scanner gives:
> 
> found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0 [Hewlett-Packard], product=0x2f11 [psc 
> 1200 series]) at libusb:003:004
>  # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be 
> supported by
>  # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.
> 
One thing I notice is that your scanner should be using the file 
/proc/bus/usb/003/004, so change the permission of that file:

chmod a+w /proc/bus/usb/003/004

Have you updated to sane-backends-1.0.13-6 from 
ftp://people.redhat.com/twaugh/tmp/sane-backends/ ?

After that package is updated, you will find a file 
/etc/usb/libsane.usermap which will contain the correct information for 
you to update the /etc/sane.d/hp.conf properly.  The entry in that file 
should be of the form

usb 0x____ 0x____.

If you don't understand some of this, ask again.

Gerry Tool





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