[sane-devel] Problem with HP 7400C.

[Rene Rebe]

Hi,

On: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 20:09:20 +0100,
    "Erik P. Olsen" <erik at epo.dk> wrote:
> I am running a vanilla Fedora Core 1 and I think I have implemented all
> the advice I have found in the mailing list and elsewhere. I have come
> to the point where the sound leads me to believe that it scans correctly
> - at least black/white (line art). However, the scanned image is all
> black. When I increase the brightness to 50 the image becomes all white.
> 
> Is this a driver bug - or am I missing something?
> 
> When I set it to scan colour it also produces all black images but it
> also sends out a horrible noise but I believe this is part of the
> problem.
> 
> What can I do to overcome this problem?

It looks like you run a very old version of SANE/Avision. Just update
to:

http://svn.rocklinux-consulting.de/sane-avision/trunk/backend/
http://www.rocklinux-consulting.de/oss/avision/

It should just work then. (incl. ADF and 16 bit scans)

> Regards,
> Erik P. olsen

Yours sincerely,
  René Rebe
    - ROCK Linux stable release maintainer

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