Hello Allan - Directing this at the list mgr for lack of another target ;-)
I'm attempting to utilize SANE backend for a HP5470c via USB to my G5 Mac @ 10.5.8 (leopard). I've installed it & I get a pref panel but it's only a list w/ckboxes for the supported scanners & a SHARE option window. I also have all the HP software installed (several times & while power-cycling the scanner as requested in the HELP section of HP's troublelshooting guide {smirk-snarl} ) to no avail. HP setup mgr can't detect the scanner device but it DOES see a printer which I DON'T even have... I have attempted to install Xscan - Xsane - Scanimage as stand alone software or plug-ins for GIMP (which I run thru X11 the application). Even though it shows up everywhere nothing works anywhere... I can occasionally get the scanner to do a test.pnm if I go thru the SANE troubleshoot scenario in command line thru Terminal as SUDO usr. WHEW... HERE'S MY ? Can or will anyone give me the .05 tour of how to get a FRONTEND or a GUI onto my BACKEND so I can get some idea of what the software is actually doing or needing to do. I should say at the outset that the HP54xxbackend doesn't really do what I need too anyway, it's just basic functionality & I need the TMA (transparency media adapter) function so I can scan my 35mm film - but I thought if I could get it working I could then try one of the other backends (actually just one - HP5590) which does support the TMA device. I'm NOT a code guy but I can follow basic instructions & I can't be the ONLY Mac guy out there with this problem so if whomever would be kind enough to just 'walk me thru the install/setup process' I'd be more than extremely grateful & so would some others of like kind. Any help is appreciated & OH, btw I've tried VueScan as well - it can't see the scanner either... TIA - MUCH appreciative ;-) leetaylor leemidi at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/attachments/20110207/912bc0b9/attachment.htm>