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Old 11-29-2007, 08:18 AM   #1
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SOLVED : How to make HP scanner work on Fedora 7 ?


Updated from core 4 to core 7 and can't get my scanner to work. It's an HP PSC 1600 series, scanner/Printer/Copier that worked fine in core 4. The printer works fine.
I edited /etc/sane.d/dll.conf, commented out everything but "hp", ran sane-detect-scanner, edited /etc/sane.d/hp.conf and inserted the line "usb 0x03f0 0x4811", which I got from the "sane-detect-scanner" command. I commented out "/dev/scanner" as this isn't present in "/dev", I checked my /etc/sane.d/dll.conf and /etc/sane.d/hp.conf against my old config from core 4 and they are identical, yet "scanimage -L" outputs nothing, it just hangs there.
I probably should add I installed a tv card, one with the bt848 chip, uses the bttv driver. Is this causing my problem? Do i need to create the devices? I'm pulling my hair out here, what little bit i've got left.
Here's my /etc/sane.d/hp.conf:

scsi HP
# Uncomment the following if you have "Error during device I/O" on SCSI
# option dumb-read
#
# The usual place for a SCSI-scanner on Linux
#/dev/scanner
#
# USB-scanners supported by the hp-backend
# HP ScanJet 4100C
# RAY, The next line was generated running "sane-find-scanner"
# (vendor=0x03f0 [HP], product=0x4811
usb 0x03f0 0x4811
# HP ScanJet 5200C
#usb 0x03f0 0x0401
# HP ScanJet 62X0C
#usb 0x03f0 0x0201
# HP ScanJet 63X0C
#usb 0x03f0 0x0601
#
# Uncomment the following if your scanner is connected by USB,
# but you are not using libusb
# /dev/usb/scanner0
# option connect-device

And here's /etc/sane.d/dll.conf:

# enable the next line if you want to allow access through the network:
# net
#abaton
#agfafocus
#apple
#avision
#artec
#artec_eplus48u
#as6e
#bh
#canon
#canon630u
#canon_pp
#coolscan
#coolscan2
#dc25
#dc210
#dc240
#dell1600n_net
#dmc
#epson
#fujitsu
#gphoto2
#genesys
#gt68xx
hp
#hpsj5s
#hp3500
#hp4200
#hp5400
#ibm
#leo
#lexmark
#ma1509
#matsushita
#microtek
#microtek2
#mustek
#mustek_pp
#mustek_usb
#mustek_usb2
#nec
#niash
#pie
#pint
#pixma
#plustek
#plustek_pp
#pnm
#qcam
#ricoh
#s9036
#sceptre
#sharp
#sm3600
#sm3840
#snapscan
#sp15c
#st400
#stv680
#tamarack
#teco1
#teco2
#teco3
#test
#u12
#umax
#umax_pp
#umax1220u
#v4l
#
# The following backends are not included in the sane-backends distribution
# If you want to use them, download them from their webpages and read their
# documentation
#
# HP OfficeJet backend homepage: http://hpoj.sf.net/
# Uncomment the following line if hpoj is installed:
#hpoj
#hpaio

SOLVED:
okay, i removed all hp related packages and downloaded and compiled hplip-2.7.10.tar.gz configured with "--enable-scan-build", did "make install" and rebooted and the scanner works now.

Last edited by SharpyWarpy; 11-30-2007 at 09:11 PM. Reason: Solved
 
Old 11-30-2007, 09:15 PM   #2
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I probably should have done a reply instead of editing my post. See the last few lines above for the solution to this problem and I hope it helps someone.
 
  


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