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

[William Gaylord]

Thats for the info.

I am running scanimage (sane-backends) 1.1.1-debian; backend version 1.1.1
currently (from apt)

On Thu, Jan 15, 2026, 12:12 PM Ralph Little <skelband at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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