[sane-devel] HP Scanjet G 2710 & backend from the CVS server

m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com
Sun Mar 8 14:57:30 UTC 2009


On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Jacek Rużyczka <stacheldraht at interia.pl> wrote:
> Am Sonntag 22 Februar 2009 22:34:51 schrieb m. allan noah:
>> I dont use SUSE, but I can make some educated guesses about their system:
>>
>> 1. install the libusb-devel package from suse. I assume yast can do this?
>>
>> 2. as root, remove parts of existing sane
>>
>> rm -rf /usr/lib/sane
>> rm -f /usr/lib/libsane*
>> rm -rf /etc/sane.d
>>
>> 3. as non-root: download sane backends snapshot from:
>>
>> http://www.sane-project.org/snapshots/
>>
>> 4. tar xzf sane-backends-VERSION.tar.gz (replace VERSION with that of
>> the file you downloaded)
>>
>> 5. cd sane-backends
>>
>> 6. ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --disable-locking
>>
>> 7. make
>>
>> 8. as root, in the same directory: make install
>>
>> 9. Then run 'scanimage -L' as root with the scanner plugged in and turned
>> on, and lets see if it shows up.
>>
>> allan
>>
> Hi,
>
> I 've tried it out with the fresh sourcecode from the CVS server. No use.
> scanimage -L says:
>
> device 'hp3900:libusb:004:005' is an Unknown RTS8822 chipset based flatbed
> scanner.
>
> :-(((((
>

Perhaps- that is a good sign? If you run:

scanimage > foo.pnm

what does foo.pnm look like?

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