[sane-devel] Using SANE with an HP Scanjet G3110

[Ralph Little]

Hi,

On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 8:02 PM William Gaylord <chibill110 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> So I have been using the mostly working driver for the G3110, and have
> found that if I use the highest available resolution it will run the scan
> head right into the end of the scanner just randomly before it even starts
> scanning. Anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Additionally, since I have the scanner up and running I will be willing to
> work on trying to debug this (so i can use it) but I sort of need help on
> how to get started with building SANE from source. Although this might be a
> better question to ask the Debian maintainer since I am running Debian.
>

Can you let us know which version of SANE you are currently running?
scanimage -V is one way to know.

Building on Debian is straightforward.

1) Get the build dependencies: sudo apt build-dep libsane1
2) Clone the backends repo: git clone
https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends.git
3) Build:

cd backends
./autogen.sh
./configure
./make
./make install

This will install to /usr/local, but you can use --prefix={dir} to set a
different target, perhaps in your home directory. That's what I do.

Cheers,
Ralph
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