[sane-devel] HP Revisited

[Wolfram Heider]

On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 19:37:44 +0200, <terrencev at ak.net> wrote:

>  	I know I've posted on this before, but I'm still fighting with this HP  
> 5200 after all, since I lost my other scanner option to a lot of things  
> changing at the place I could go to scan.  I'm using Oralux, a  
> Knoppix-based distro, and an HP5200 that I bought about 6-7 years ago.  
> When I try to scan with it, I get the following:
> $ scanimage >test.ppm
> scanimage: sane_read: Error during device I/O
> $ scanimage >test.ppm
> scanimage: sane_read: Error during device I/O
> $ scanimage >test.ppm
> scanimage: no SANE devices found
> $ scanimage -L
> device `hp:libusb:001:002' is a Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 5200C flatbed  
> scanner
> $ scanimage >test.ppm
> scanimage: sane_read: Error during device I/O
> $ scanimage >test.ppm
> scanimage: no SANE devices found
>  	Sane-find-scanner gave me the following:
> found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0 [Hewlett-Packard], product=0x0401 [HP  
> ScanJet 5200C]) at libusb:001:002
>  	A subsequent "scanimage -L" returned "device `hp:libusb:001:002' is a  
> Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 5200C flatbed scanner".
>  	When I'm actually trying to scan with it, e.g. "scanimage
>> test.ppm", it kind of half starts up like it's going to scan and then
> just sits there.  Occasionally it'll actually get around to moving a  
> little, but that was only the first time or 2.  And just now, when I  
> wasn't even touching it, it decided to make a little noise.
>  	I know I've probably asked some of this before, but maybe I didn't ask  
> it right or didn't read something right.  What makes it do this?  How  
> can I fix it?  If you need any more info I'll get that to you as well.
>
> Thanks,
> Terrence
>


As a workaround you may uncomment the line *option dumb-read* in hp.conf.


Wolfram Heider