Hi, when generating scanimage from source, you usually do a ./configure without a --prefix. Then the executables are stored in /usr/local and also the configuration directory is at /usr/local/etc/sane.d. So maybe you have two version of SANE on your machine. The SANE-libraries from your distribution under /usr/lib and the libraries from your own compilation under /usr/local/lib. You can try to remove the SANE-package using your administration tools of your Linux distribution. But it may complain that too many other packages require that. A brute force to remove the SANE-libraries under /usr/lib is just to remove everything relating to sane below that directory. Then you should add /usr/local/lib to the file /etc/ld.so.conf and run a ldconfig. Then the command
ldd scanimage should show you from where the libraries are fetched. And then you should check again /usr/local/etc/sane.d/hp.conf and dll.conf if they fit your needs. Sincerely Peter Yao Ko schrieb: > On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 13:45, Peter Kirchgessner wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>you can check if the hp-backend is called to open the scanner. To do >>this do >> >>SANE_DEBUG_HP=17 >>export SANE_DEBUG_HP >> >>before starting scanimage. If the backend is called, it prints out >>messages to stderr. >>If it is not called, scanimage may look in a different directory for >>the >>configuration. You can do >> >>SANE_CONFIG_DIR=/etc/sane.d >>export SANE_CONFIG_DIR >> >>and then start scanimage again. >>If you don't succeed in getting the scanner running, redirect the >>debug >>messages to a file >> >>scanimage -L 2>hp.lis >> >>gzip it and send it back to me. > > > > Hi Peter, > > I tried the above and it didn't open the HP backend. After many hours of > tweaking, I found that doing this makes scanimage find the scanner: > > "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib scanimage -L" > > I'm not sure why this is happening. I'm using RH9. If I compile the > newest sane-backends, scanimage works fine. > > I'll investigate further and post more findings. Has anyone encountered > similar problems with this scanner? > > Thanks, > > Yao > > -- Peter Kirchgessner http://www.kirchgessner.net mailto:pe...@kirchgessner.net