HP Scanjet G3010 Trouble

Strixy · 04-28-2008, 12:06 AM

I've been working on getting an HP Scanjet G3010 to work with my Mepis 7 system.

lsusb output
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 03f0:4205 Hewlett-Packard

cat /proc/bus/usb/devices

Code:

T:  Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=03 Cnt=01 Dev#=  5 Spd=480 MxCh= 0
D:  Ver= 2.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=03f0 ProdID=4205 Rev= 1.00
S:  Manufacturer=hewlett packard
S:  Product=hp scanjet
S:  SerialNumber=CN7CQA53
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=e0 MxPwr=  2mA
I:* If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=00 Prot=ff Driver=(none)
E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=0ms
E:  Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=0ms
E:  Ad=83(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=   1 Ivl=256ms

sane-find-scanner reports

Code:

  # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the
  # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your
  # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer.

  # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that
  # you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.

found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0 [hewlett packard], product=0x4205 [hp scanjet], chip=RTS8822) at libusb:001:006
  # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by
  # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.

  # Not checking for parallel port scanners.

  # Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports
  # can't be detected by this program.

I tried to use synaptic to install SANE, but all front-end SANE applications locked up (eg. GIMP, Kooka) when I tried to open them. As did the command line scanimage and xscanimage.

I removed the original SANE install, then d/l and compiled sane-backends from source and also the front-ends. No change.

I tried to use the hplip toolkit - note that this is for printers and there isn't a scanner that is supported with this. Besides all the other comments out there that hplip is the solution - it's not.

I've been digging through config files and README's and MAN pages and I'm stumped. There doesn't appear to be a support forum for SANE.

I searched the internet with Google, nothing. I've searched this forum and found two dead threads from 07 with no resolutions attached.

Any advice, even if it is to recommend a scanner that works, would be greatly appreciated.

Smedley · 04-28-2008, 12:21 AM

Have you come across these via Google:

http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfg...EWLETT-PACKARD

http://sourceforge.net/projects/hp3900-series/

http://www.sane-project.org/man/sane-hp3900.5.html

Strixy · 04-28-2008, 12:53 AM

Yes. I have been working with the hp3900 backend as well. The readme says, " If autodetection does not work, add the device name of your scanner to the configuration file".

I went to change it and found that the device name was already listed in the config file. No advice on that outcome.

Still working at it.

Actually, if it helps, this is the output of that process.

Code:

- Info : hp3900 backend already enabled in dll.conf ...
- Installation ends succesfully...

When I use scanimage from the cl, it hangs.

This this appears to be helpful
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.p...orum_id=503228

Strixy · 04-28-2008, 01:57 AM

It looks like I missed a couple of things.

When I compiled the hp3900 backend, the dll.conf file (which controls the modules to load) was sent to the wrong place. I edited the /etc/sane.d/dll.conf file to resemble the new one in /usr/local/share/sane/dll.conf and for good measure I moved the .la, .so, etc.. files for hp3900 into /etc/sane.d as well.

I had to reboot to get the file permissions to work with the scanner properly, but it appears to be working just fine now.

This advice was discovered on the hp3900 forum.
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.p...orum_id=503228

To confirm which files are being loaded and from where, use the command
SANE_DEBUG_DLL=128 scanimage -L

I also noticed that the above hungup on certain drivers, so I uncommented those ones out of the /etc/sane.d/dll.conf file until it made it through the list. What was the point of loading all of those modules for scanners I'll never use? I left all the HP ones intact, but took out the majority of the others.

Smedley · 04-28-2008, 02:09 AM

Great! Glad you found the solution and posted it for future reference.