[sane-devel] HP Scanjet G2710 support in RPM-packed sane-backends

[m. allan noah]

2009/2/14 m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com>:
> On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Jacek Rużyczka <stacheldraht at interia.pl> wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I've recently had serious trouble with getting my HP ScanJet G2710 run with
>> SANE. As suggested in
>> http://jkdsoftware.dyndns.org/drupal/?q=en/forums/hp3900-series/248 I used the
>> hp3900 SANE backend, but sane-find-scanner does not recognize the scanner
>> correctly:
>>
>> found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0 [hewlett packard], product=0x2805 [hp
>> scanjet], chip=RTS8822) at libusb:004:004
>>
>> I looked into the corresponding config files (hp3900.conf, usb.ids)...but
>> there the G2710 was referenced with the correct USB product ID.
>>
>> I am using openSUSE 11.1 x86_64 with the SANE libs in RPM form (it's a
>> producttion machine so that I'm tring to use RPM-packaged programs only):
>>
>> veteran:/home/jacek # rpm -q sane-backends
>> sane-backends-1.0.19-128.106
>>
>> What is the problem? G2710 support missing in the RPM-packaged SANE backends?
>> Thank you for any useful hints.
>
> SUSE correctly ships our last release, which is now more than 1 year
> old. You have installed a devel version which has not been officially
> released. There is nothing wrong with the RPMs.

The second sentence should have read:

You have to install a devel ...

allan
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