Scanning broken in Fedora ?

[Jim]

On 04/13/2010 10:11 PM, Richard England wrote:
> On 04/12/2010 11:16 PM, Valent Turkovic wrote:
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=556218
>>
>> Is scanning working for you? Looks like it's broken. Any news of a fix
>> anytime soon?
>>
>>    
>
> Fedora 12  Xsane  HP psc2410  worked fine last night.
>
>
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> /~~R/
That is just one problem, wait until you get to Scanning and Saving a 
Text file.


I used these instructions for my scanner and got it working, Where it 
says Samsung, xerox.mfp, apply your own scanner.
The HP Scanners has a Fedora rpm  packages you can use.


I have also been preparing the setup to allow scanning but not had a 
chance to
test that yet.

Anyway it is very pleasing that the printer is working, despite being an
unsupported printer - and only using the two files pulled from the other 
Samsung
linux application allowed the printer to work nicely.
[edit] Scanning

I have also now tested scanning on the scx-4500w now.

I installed sane-backends from updates-testing to give
sane-backends-1.0.20-4.fc10.i386

Then edited /etc/sane.d/your-scanner-name.conf to add two extra lines, 
according to
advice from other postings on the net since the Samsung printer was 
suggested to
work with the xerox_mfp backend setup:

# Samsung SCX-4500W
usb 0x04e8 0x342b

Then made a new file /etc/hal/fdi/information/19-libsane-scx4500w.fdi 
with the
following content:
Edit in your vendor_id and product_id of your scanner below.


<?xml version="1.0"
encoding="UTF-8"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<match key="info.subsystem" string="usb">
<match key="usb.vendor_id" int="0x04e8">
<match key="usb.product_id" int="0x342b">
<append key="info.capabilities"
type="strlist">scanner</append>
</match>
</match>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>



Then I simply fired up the GIMP and asked it to scan - it found the 
scanner, and
it worked without any further setup.

Note that in F11 the scanner refused to work although printing worked as 
in F10.
After a lot of fiddling around I found that there is a workaround to 
what looks
like an error in the package "sane-backends-1.0.20-4.fc11.i586", and 
managed to
make the scanner work again -

I found that the dll.conf files in /etc/sane.d/ were interesting.

There were two files in my system - which were: -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 916
2009-10-03 12:13 dll.conf -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 664 2009-06-23 09:04
dll.conf.rpmnew

I noted that dll.conf was dated later than dll.conf.rpmnew - and the 
dll.conf
file did not include xerox_mfp, whereas the earlier dated 
dll.conf.rpmnew did
include this and in my case this is needed for the driver!

So I simply did the following: mv dll.conf dll.conf.orig cp dll.conf.rpmnew
dll.conf

To make the .rpmnew version current and fired up GIMP and asked for a 
scan - and
it worked just fine. I added a note to a pre-existing bugzilla report and
hopefully it will get fixed in due course.

So although I have only tested the printing and scanning capability on 
F10 via
the usb port it does work very nicely.
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