[sane-devel] Help me with my scanner HP PSC 1610

[Wolfram Heider]

On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 17:11:21 +0200, CHI Si-An <chi_sian at yahoo.fr> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I cannot use my scanner HP PSC 1610 with my linux box  
> (gentoo-linux-2.6.17-r5).
>
> I followed this howto :  
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_a_USB_scanner
>
> I had to add my scanner in /etc/hotplug/usb/libsane.usermap
>
> Now sane-find-scabber seems to work well but scanimage -L does not find  
> the scanner.
>
> --
> tux sian # sane-find-scanner -q
> found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0 [HP], product=0x4811 [PSC 1600 series])  
> at libusb:004:002
> tux sian #  scanimage -L
> [gphoto2] init_gphoto2: error: serial:/dev/ttyd1 is not a valid gphoto2  
> port.  Use "gphoto2 --list-ports" for list.
> device `test:0' is a Noname frontend-tester virtual device
> device `test:1' is a Noname frontend-tester virtual device
>
> --
>
> Can you please help me ?
>
> Regards
>
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The PSC 1610 isn't supported by SANE directly. You will need an external  
backend that comes with 'hplip'. It's downloadable from  
http://hplip.sourceforge.net/

It's also some inatallation and toubleshooting advice there.

-- 
Wolfram Heider