[sane-devel] first trial of genesys driver for hp2400c

[Alexey Osipov]

В Срд, 21/09/2011 в 05:45 +0200, stef пишет:
> Le mercredi 21 septembre 2011 01:13:49 Bertie Coopersmith, vous avez écrit :
> > This is the output I have just obtained from my HP Scanjet 2400 on
> > a usb port of my Dell Inspiron running Ubuntu:-
> > 
> > ~# scanimage -L
> > device `genesys:libusb:005:005' is a Hewlett Packard ScanJet 2400c flatbed
> > scanner root at ubuntu:~# scanimage > xxx.pnp
> > [genesys] WARNING: Your scanner is not fully supported or at least
> > [genesys]          had only limited testing. Please be careful and
> > [genesys]          report any failure/success to
> > [genesys]          sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org. Please provide as
> > many [genesys]          details as possible, e.g. the exact name of your
> > [genesys]          scanner and what does (not) work.
> > scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument
> > root at ubuntu:~#
> > 
> > Until yesterday I have been using my hp scanjet 2400 with drivers
> > downloaded from www.elcot.in (Probably conversions of Windows
> > .dll files.
> > 
> > Then yesterday I had a struggle to get 'scanimage -L' to report
> > that it had found a scanner. I guessed that SANE drivers had been
> > provided from the Ubuntu repository via Update Manager.
> > 
> > After rebooting and confirming  with 'lsusb' that the scanner was
> > being recognized as a usb device  I finally got some output from
> > 'scanimage -L'. However, it reported two drivers on the same usb
> > port. This confirmed my hunch. Anyway I performed a
> > successful test scan.
> > 
> > Today I did some 'ls -l' commands in /usr/lib/sane  which
> > showed that the .so files from genesys were recent (and
> > 'ls -lut' showed that they had been accessed yesterday)
> > so I removed the Indian .so files. After that I'm always
> > getting the output shown at the top. -- Even after I re-installed
> > the drivers from India. - So now I should have both drivers but
> > the indian ones were must recently installed (although their
> > modification times are again old as to be expected from the .tgz
> > extraction. The file etc/saned/dll.conf still has the entry 'hp2400'
> > which is required by the Indian drivers).
> > 
> > Please help.
> > Bertie Coopersmith.
> 
> 	Hello,
> 
> 	current SANE development version has now full support for the HP2400. If 
> you don't want the genesys backend, but use the 'elcot' one, you might have to 
> comment out the genesys entry in dll.conf .
> 
> Regards,
> 	Stef
> 

Hello,

You could also try using my PPA, which contains patched version of
sane-backends 1.0.22 with full support for the hp2400.

https://launchpad.net/~lion-simba/+archive/hp2400-genesys

Regards,
Alexey.