[sane-devel] One last try

Tue, 19 Feb 2002 04:08:48 +0100

Linux will never improve in that area. No one will be able to meet you on 
your level and will constantly refer you to rtfq. I'm afraid that you still 
need to be a rocket science graduate with thick rimmed spectacles and no 
girlfriend to be able to come to terms with scanners under Linux. Unless you 
have SuSE 7.3 an Epson USB scanner and a free weekend that is ;-) Why not get 
an Epson and save yourself a lot of misery? From what you say you are still 
miles away from the HP working and forget it scanning from gimp. that takes 2 
years. Any old 640U works right out of the box. You can pick them up for next 
to nothing in supermarket chains.

Now this message should have just ruffled enough feathers of the rocket 
science scanner graduates to get you the help you need. If not, give us a 
buzz. Me? I use Umax.

Best wishes and good luck from a realistic Steve, Alicante, España.

BTW what is 1.07 Sane?

On Monday 18 February 2002 15:08, you wrote:
> 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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