[sane-devel] [ANNOUNCE] New SANE backend 'hp5590' for HP ScanJet%0A%095550/5590/7650

[Ilia Sotnikov]

You should try latest CVS version (available from SANE website).
1.0.18 doesn't include support of your scanner.

On 7/12/07, Frank <frank.billot at free.fr> wrote:
> I have downloaded
> alioth.debian.org/frs/download.php/1669/sane-backends-1.0.18.tar.gz, not
> being sure it is the backends cvs.
> However, having followed the installation procedure, it does not recognize
> the hp5590 (no SANE devices found).
> There is no trace of backend dedicated to the 5590, either in the gunzip
> produced 'sane-backends-1.0.18' directory or in the /usr/lib/sane.
> the /sane-backends-1.0.18/tools/edve/libsane.rules do mention the hp5590
> as usb device, so it maybe means that it is embedded in something else, so
> that one should not expect a specific backend file ?
> Maybe the solution lies in this note :
> # To run a script when your device is plugged in, add RUN="/path/to/script"
> # to the appropriate rule.
> but I would not know how to use it or if a script could be used do make
> the rule active.
> In case, I added 'usb 0x03f0 0x1705' in /etc/sane/d/hp.conf, with no
> effect.
> Yet, the scanner appears in lsubs as 'Bus 003 Device 003: ID 03f0:1705
> Hewlett-Packard'
> and sane-find-scanner gives 'found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0
> [Hewlett-Packard], product=0x1705 [hp scanjet scanner]) at libusb:003:003'.
>
> It is not a matter of permission, scanimage -L gives no result under root
> either, even after 'chmod a+rw /proc/bus/usb/003/003'.
> I have suppressed a prior version of sane and reinstalled, with no success.
> Any clue ?
> Thanks
>
>
> Le Fri, 06 Jul 2007 19:56:10 +0200, m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com> a
> écrit:
>
> > hp5590 backend has already been added to sane backends cvs, so just
> > check that out- you dont need the diff.
> >
> > allan
> >
> > On 7/6/07, Frank Billot <frank.billot at neuf.fr> wrote:
> >> the bin produces a syntax error :
> >> ./sane-backends-hp5590-cvs070411.diff-0001.bin: 2: Syntax error: ")"
> >> unexpected
> >>
> >> is there a gz version of sane-backends-hp5590-cvs070411.diff.gz
> >> available
> >> somewhere or is the problem not a version matter ?
> >>
> >> thanks
>
> --
> Frank Billot
>
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 Ilia Sotnikov