[sane-devel] Problems with SANE 1.0.13 and HP ScanJet 5300C

[Thomas Rösch]

Hello Guys,

I installed Suse Linux 9.1 with SANE 1.0.13 two weeks ago and I am now trying 
to get my scanner HP ScanJet 5300C to work, but unfortunately without any 
success up to now.
I searched with Google and found many hints how to get a HP ScanJet 5300C to 
work with SANE, but I was either too stupid to apply the hints or they did 
not work at all. Because I am quite new in the Linux business, I probably do 
not know where to look and which information you might need to help me, but I 
try my best.

As I have said, I am using 
Suse Linux 9.1 (kernel 2.6.5)
SANE 1.0.13

SANE-FIND-SCANNER as root:
found SCSI scanner "HP ScanJet 5300C 6.00" at /dev/sg0
  # Your SCSI scanner was detected. It may or may not be supported by SANE. 
Try
  # scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.

found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0, product=0x0701) at libusb:003:002
  # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported 
by
  # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.

  # Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports can't 
be
  # detected by this program.

SCANIMAGE -L as root:
device `avision:/dev/sg0' is a Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 5300C flatbed scanner

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SANE-FIND-SCANNER as user:
  # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure 
that
  # you have loaded a SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.

found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0, product=0x0701) at libusb:003:002
  # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported 
by
  # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.

  # Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports can't 
be
  # detected by this program.

  # You may want to run this program as root to find all devices. Once you
  # found the scanner devices, be sure to adjust access permissions as
  # necessary.

SCANIMAGE -L as user:
No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,
check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the
sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation
which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).

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Obviously, SCANIMAGE does only detect a SCSI scanner, but I connected my 
scanner with USB and I even do not have a SCSI port in my PC. Also as a 
normal user SCANIMAGE does not find any scanner which seems to be an 
authorization problem.

But when I start e. g. XSANE (0.92) I receive the message "no devices 
available" and the program closes again (it does not matter if I run it as 
root or as normal user).

It seems to me, that SCANIMAGE does not really detect my scanner even if it 
displays that it has found one (avision:/dev/sg0).

Does anyone know what I can do to force SCANIMAGE to detect my scanner? If you 
need further information about my setup, please feel free to contact me and 
tell me what information you need.

I would appreciate your help very much as I do not want to go back to Windows 
only to get my scanner to work. ;-)

With best regards,
Thomas