[sane-devel] Problem with sane-1.0.9, PPC, ScanJet 4C

[Peter Kirchgessner]

Hi Keith,

gzip it and send it to me.

--Peter

Keith Clayton schrieb:
> Hi all,
> 
> I just recently was given an HP scanjet 4c and I'm trying to get it
> working with my system.  So far no luck.  I guess most obivious is that
> it was known to be working on Win98 before I got it .. so
> 
> I'm running Linux 2.4.19 on a PPC machine.  Compiled SANE-1.0.9 from
> source using gcc-3.2.1 . . compilation was fine, uneventful.
> 
> SCSI generic is compiled into the kernel and the scanner is recognized
> at boot time as /dev/sgc.  I have an internal scsi cd-rw drive that is
> working fine with cdrecord (uses scsi-generic) and an old external
> syquest which are both working fine also so SCSI looks ok.
> 
> Here's my output from cat /proc/scsi/scsi
> 
> Attached devices:
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
>   Vendor: YAMAHA   Model: CRW4416S         Rev: 1.0h
>   Type:   CD-ROM                           ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00
>   Vendor: SyQuest  Model: EZ135S           Rev: 1_12
>   Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00
>   Vendor: HP       Model: C2520A           Rev: 3503
>   Type:   Processor                        ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> 
> 
> I've created a symlink from /dev/scanner to /dev/sgc and when I run
> sane-find-scanner, it sees an HP C2520A at /dev/sgc, /dev/sg2 and
> /dev/scanner.  So far so good.
> 
> When I run scanimage -L however, no scanners are found.  Note: for
> testing right now, I'm running as root and I checked the permissions of
> /dev/sgc just to be sure (0660)
> 
> I searched the mail archives and couldn't find any recent issues with
> PPC and the HP backend so I went to the faq.  Found the HP faq and
> looked at that.  Mentioned device i/o errors with certain scsi cards and
> mentioned upgrading the HP backend to v1.0.1
> 
> So, first I ran SANE_DEBUG_HP=255 scanimage -L with the old backend
> (v0.96 IIRC) and captured the output then I upgraded to v1.0.1. 
> Recompiled just find but
> 
> That one dumped core on me with an error
> 
> scanimage: hp-option.c:3501: sanei_hp_optset_scanmode: Assertion `mode'
> failed.
> 
> when I ran scanimage -L.  
> 
> I ran SANE_DEBUG_HP=255 scanimage -L with that backend and captured that
> output as well.
> 
> With each backend, it appears that sane and my HP4C are talking but that
> SANE is getting unexpected responeses (endian problems?)
> 
> So, I'm not sure where to go with this.  I don't know myself what the
> communication "should" look like.
> 
> I'd be happy to post my debug output though it's rather lengthy.  I
> figured it'd be better to send it off list to anyone who could make
> sense of it.
> 
> 
> Thanks for any help anyone can give
> 
> Cheers,
> Keith
> 
> 
> 
> 


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Peter Kirchgessner
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