[sane-devel] One last try

[Art Fore]

I will try one more time to get the HP5300C to working before giving up. I
will download the 1.07 Sane, etc. and install them along with the latest
Gimp etc. I do have a few questions though

Is the patch for the avision mentioned in http://www.neatech.nl/oss/HP5300C/
still required?

If so, how do you do that, ie, what files etc. and details on this. I am new
to linux so don't know much about it yet.

Would also like some answers to the questions below.

I have had nothing but problems with linux and hardware. First it was
NVIDIA, then the PCMCIA, then the modem, then the sound, now the scanner.
Seems like everytime I get one thing working, something else breaks.
Hopefully linux will improve in that area.

Art

-----Original Message-----
From: Art Fore [mailto:art_fore@3mts.com]
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 4:05 AM
To: sane-devel@mostang.com
Subject: RE: [sane-devel] FW: Sus3 7.3, Sane 1.05, HP5300C


On http://www.neatech.nl/oss/HP5300C/ they talk about a usb-scsi module.
This does not show up in my kernel config, however, I have an hp53xx module.
There is also mention of a patch for the avision driver. Is this patch still
applicable or is it by this time already built in?

Should the scsi generic be as a module or compiled into the kernel?
Should the hp53xx module be compiled into the kernel or as a module?

Right now I have both compiled into the kernel and the cat /proc/scsi/scsi
does not work where it worked before and I would like to know what is the
right way. On one of the web articles, it said the scsi generic should be
compiled into the kernel, not as a module and the hp53xx should be as a
module, but that did not work either?

Art

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Hall [mailto:jhall@UU.NET]
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 2:29 PM
To: art_fore@3mts.com
Cc: Jeremy Hall; sane-devel@mostang.com
Subject: Re: [sane-devel] FW: Sus3 7.3, Sane 1.05, HP5300C


I don't know how to tell it to use hp5300.o, I just modprobe'd it and it
found it.

If you're using bash for a shell

export SANE_SG_BUFFERSIZE=32768

or if csh or tcsh

setenv SANE_SG_BUFFERSIZE 32768

_J

In the new year, Art Fore wrote:
> How do you set SANE_SG_BUFFERSIZE? I done a SANE_SG_BUFFERSIZE=32768, but
> this does not seem to do anything? Also, how do you tell which it is
using,
> scanner.o or hp5300.o? Is this in a config file somewhere?
>
> Art
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Hall [mailto:jhall@UU.NET]
> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 2:16 PM
> To: art_fore@3mts.com
> Cc: sane-devel@mostang.com
> Subject: Re: [sane-devel] FW: Sus3 7.3, Sane 1.05, HP5300C
>
>
> THe 5300 doesn't use scanner.o, it uses hp5300.o (or whatever it was
> called) It's basically a modified microtek driver.
>
> Make sure your SANE_SG_BUFFERSIZE is set correctly, if memory serves, this
> should be 32768 (this is an environment variable) then somewhere in sane's
> configuration options is a directive that tells sane to use a driver, make
> sure it is using the avision driver.
>
> This was with sane 1.0.3, but things still should work?
>
> _J
>
> In the new year, Art Fore wrote:
> > I have gone through the whole exercise again, still no results except
that
> > now the cat /dev/scsi/scsi does not work. When from bad to worse.
> >
> > Does anyone have a howto to install this scanner in Suse 7.3, 2.4.17
> kernel,
> > 1.05 sane drivers?
> >
> > Or, what about the 1.06 sane drivers, I installed them but then
> > sane-find-scanner and scanimage don't work at all, command not found, so
> > went back to 1.05.
> >
> > Scanner shows up under scsi in yast2 hardware, lsmod shows scanner
unused,
> > so I am confused.
> >
> > Art
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Art Fore [mailto:art_fore@3mts.com]
> > Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2002 10:45 AM
> > To: sane-devel@www.mostang.com
> > Subject: Sus3 7.3, Sane 1.05, HP5300C
> >
> >
> > I have tried everthing that I could find but have no success. Have
> > configured scanner in Yast2 with Avision. Here is what I get
> >
> > sane-find-scanner
> > found scanner "HP ScanJet 5300C 4.00" at /dev/sg1
> >
> > scanimage -L results in no scanners were identified.
> >
> > I edited the dll.conf and removed the # from the avision.
> >
> > Still nothing.
> >
> > I unistalled sane 1.05 and installed 1.06 backend and frontend, but then
> > sane-find-scanner and scanimage comes up with command not found, so I
> > uninstalled and reinstalled the 1.05 from the Suse CD.
> >
> > Still nothing, other than the /dev/sg0 changed to /dev/sg1. Generic scsi
> is
> > compiled in kernel, HP53xx USB is compled as module. Had it the other
way
> > around, but there was no change.
> >
> > Did not try the patch as it seemed to be for 1.04 and I am running 1.05
> and
> > figured it would screw something up more than it already is.
> >
> > Would appreciate any help.
> >
> > Art
> >
> >
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