[sane-devel] HP Scanjet G4050

Ralph Little skelband at gmail.com
Tue Jul 28 16:33:56 BST 2026


Hi,
Unfortunately, the transparency unit is not yet supported by the genesys 
backend for this device.
It would take a reasonable amount of work and we don't currently have an 
active maintainer for the genesys backend at the moment.

Regards,
Ralph

On 2026-07-28 05:12, Pierre THOMAS via sane-devel wrote:
> Bonjour,
>
> My HP Scanjet G4050 scanner works fine with xsane for simple images on 
> paper, with my Mageia Linux 10 desktop PC.
>
> But, is it possible to scan diapositives with xsane ?  How could I do it ?
> Even I choose Dia, the lamp in the scanner cover never turns on.
>
> For diapositives, I use my scanner connected to a Windows PC (😳), 
> with the HP software. The software is really not user-friendly, the 
> developers surely never used it intensely ...
>
> Pierre THOMAS 
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