[sane-devel] Sane Doesn't work for me.

m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com
Sat Jul 28 20:20:01 UTC 2007 

first thing- can you, as root, do this:

scanimage > foo.pnm

and then look at foo.pnm with an image viewer of your choice?

allan

On 7/28/07, Robert Wessling <robertwessling at verizon.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>     I received this email from Oliver Rauch.
>
> Hello Robert,
>
> to start xsane call xsane without options.
> When xsane does not find a device then please contact the sane-devel
> mailing list on http://www.sane-project.org or the author of the backend
> that should support your scanner.
>
> Best regards
> Oliver
>
>         I did as he suggests and nothing happened.  I did it bot a me
> and as root.
>
> I have gathered the information below and hope someone can help me
> use my HP Officejet 4215's scanning function. I can use the scanning
> function when I switch from Fedora Linux to Windows XP. There is a
> scan button on my Officejet 4215.  When I press it, the message on the LCD
> display says to install the scanning software.  Under Windows XP2, because I used the cd supplied by HP to setup my printer, there is a desktop item labeled HP Director.  When I click in that I can select and use the scan function.  So, O kow the printer hardware works under Windows XP.  However, I want to stop using Windows and regain all the resources it ties up.
> Attached is a file with all the information I have gathered trying to my make my Officejet 4215 work under Feodora Redhat Linux.
>
>         Boob Wessling
>
>
>
> I am seeking help to be able to use my HP 4215 all-in-one printer to scan and fax on Fedora 5 Linux.  I have been working on this goal for weeks.
>
> When I run xsane, a page appears that is too large to fit my screen. The page is longer than my screen can diplay.  I can't scroll down the page, so I can't be sure I am at the bottom of the page.  The page has to do with warnings about xsane and starts with these two lines.  I beleive my monitor is setup properly.  It is a Dell M782P and that is how I configured it.
>
>         The output of xsane -v is below
>
> xsane -v
> xsane-0.991 (c) 1998-2006 Oliver Rauch
>   E-mail: Oliver.Rauch at xsane.org
>   package xsane-0.991
>   compiled with GTK-2.8.20
>   without GIMP support
>   XSane output formats: jpeg, pdf(compr.), png, pnm, ps(compr.), tiff,
>   txt
>
> I don't know how to recompile xsane with gimp and I don't know if I need to.
>
>         I have searched the internet for articles. I have installed the 2.7.6 version of hplip.  I am not sure the installation is good.
>
>         The tool sane-find-scanner produces the output below.
>
>   # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your       scanner. If the
>   # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your
>   # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer.
>
>   # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that
>   # you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.
>
> found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0, product=0x3d11) at libusb:002:003
>   # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by
>   # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.
>
>
>   # Not checking for parallel port scanners.
>
>   # Most 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.
>
>         So, it appears the scanner is found.
>
>         I had to run scanimage as root to get this output.  Here is a ls -l scanimage
>
> [root at localhost robertwessling]# ls -l /usr/bin/scanimage
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 42836 Sep  8  2006 /usr/bin/scanimage
>
>         I don't see any permission problem.
>
>         The output from scanimage -L is below
>
> device `hpaio:/usb/officejet_4200_series?serial=CN4C2FH1DV' is a Hewlett-Packard officejet_4200_series all-in-one
>
> The serial=CN4C2FH1DV is my Hp 4215 officejet printer's serial number.
>
> When I type whereis hpaio, I find nothing. When I search for /dev, I find the output below
>
>
>
> crw------- 1 root root 10, 228 Jun 30 11:31 hpet
>
>
> crw------- 1 root root 253,  0 Jun 30 11:31 usbdev1.1_ep00
> crw------- 1 root root 253,  1 Jun 30 11:31 usbdev1.1_ep81
> crw------- 1 root root 253,  2 Jun 30 11:31 usbdev2.1_ep00
> crw------- 1 root root 253,  3 Jun 30 11:31 usbdev2.1_ep81
> crw------- 1 root root 253, 12 Jul  2 15:48 usbdev2.3_ep00
> crw------- 1 root root 253, 13 Jul  2 15:48 usbdev2.3_ep01
> crw------- 1 root root 253, 19 Jul  6 09:37 usbdev2.3_ep03
> crw------- 1 root root 253, 16 Jul  2 15:48 usbdev2.3_ep07
> crw------- 1 root root 253, 14 Jul  2 15:48 usbdev2.3_ep81
> crw------- 1 root root 253, 15 Jul  2 15:48 usbdev2.3_ep82
> crw------- 1 root root 253, 20 Jul  6 09:37 usbdev2.3_ep83
> crw------- 1 root root 253, 21 Jul  6 09:37 usbdev2.3_ep84
> crw------- 1 root root 253, 17 Jul  2 15:48 usbdev2.3_ep87
> crw------- 1 root root 253, 18 Jul  2 15:48 usbdev2.3_ep88
> crw------- 1 root root 253,  4 Jun 30 11:31 usbdev3.1_ep00
> crw------- 1 root root 253,  5 Jun 30 11:31 usbdev3.1_ep81
> crw------- 1 root root 253,  6 Jun 30 11:31 usbdev4.1_ep00
> crw------- 1 root root 253,  7 Jun 30 11:31 usbdev4.1_ep81
> crw------- 1 root root 253,  8 Jul  5 12:49 usbdev4.5_ep00
> crw------- 1 root root 253,  9 Jul  5 12:49 usbdev4.5_ep02
> crw------- 1 root root 253, 11 Jul  5 12:49 usbdev4.5_ep81
> crw------- 1 root root 253, 10 Jul  5 12:49 usbdev4.5_ep86
>
>         I don't know if can use these devices or do I need to create
> my own.
>
>
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