poor scanresolution with hp officejet 6110
 

I am the proud owner of a HP 6110 officejet. The printer works perfectly well, the scanner ... well ... it works. I can scan, no doubt, but the resolution is poor. The maximal resolution SANE allows me is 600 dpi. Now, I know that the scanner is capable of far higher resolutions. I had it installed under Mandrake 10.1 before and could go to its physical maximum of 1,200 * 1,200 dpi without any problem. Why doesn't this work in SuSe 9.2??? I'm using both, Kooka and XSane, have reinstalled Sane using YAST - nothing changed. I am lost here, any suggestions???

still no clue what to do
 

hmmm... I have toyed around with ptal-setup, ptal-init and so on...., the only result was that I had to reinstall the printer. Weird....

how did you get it to be able to scan?

start
 

the easy way is to log in as root and then just type ptal-init start.

after that both xsane and kooka should recognize the device and scan - but only at a max res of 600 dpi, which is sort of frustrating, since I need higher res to scan slides in.....