[sane-devel] Support for HP Scanjet 5400C series ?

Remy Cool dev-sane at smartology.nl
Sat Mar 9 15:11:54 GMT 2002


Hi,

The scanner is working ok under Windows, with that I mean that the 
scanner hardware works, the buggy HP precission scan software is a 
totaly different story :)  

I've been trying to get information about which backend this scanner 
uses, but to this day to no avail. There's a small chance it's HP, 
but could also be Avision. The scanner does 2400dpi optical, so it 
probably isn't based on the 1200dpi chipset used in the 5300C series. 
When loading scanner.o with modprobe, the loading of the module takes 
forever. Lsmod show that scanner is initializing .. so I too suspect 
that there's an incompatibility with the current scanner.o and the 
5400c (kernel 2.4.18). I'm planning to use a usb-logger under windows 
to see if I can get some usefull information about the protocol 
usesd. I don't like to reinvent the wheel so to speak, that's the 
reason I asked this question on this board :)

Remy

On Friday 08 March 2002 17:34, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 01:06:27PM +0100, Remy Cool wrote:
> > Does anyone have information about support for the 5400C series
> > under linux ? According to various messages on usenet this
> > scanner is supported under freeBSD with SANE ... what's the
> > problem with linux ?
>
> From the previous mails you have sent I suspect that tehre is a bug
> in either the Linux USB scanner driver (scanner.c) or one of the
> other core systems. By which backend do you think is the scanner
> supported? Maybe the developer of this backend has experiences with
> such a kind of bug?
>
> Otherwis I would ask the Linux kernel USB maintainers about this.
> Are you sure that the scanner hardware itsself is working?
>
> Bye,
>   Henning
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