On Thursday 10 June 2004 13:15, Rob wrote: > Olaf Hoyer wrote: > > > I think the warm-up of the device is a bit slow, before it actually will > > do something. > > I find it so terribly slow in comparison to its operation on Windows, > that I think it's not the HP scanner, but the software, or the way > I use the software. > > Also the quality is miserable. Although that is probably my mistake, > I use the software with its default settings. It should be strange > that the defaults result in miserably low quality pictures.... > > I have changed the scan from "Lineart" to "Color"; this allows me to > have a long, long coffee break until the scan is finished! > > ------------ > > One more thing I do not understand: I always have to give > "hp:/dev/uscanner0" as the device parameter to the scanner command. > > When I do "xscanimage", I get > [xscanimage] No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something > different, check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and > detected by sane-find-scanner (if appropriate). Please read > the documentation which came with this software (README, FAQ, > manpages). > > But "xscanimage hp:/dev/uscanner0" works fine. > > However, "sane-find-scanner", returns the scanner, vendor, product etc: > found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0, product=0x0401) at /dev/uscanner0 > > And "scanimage -L" returns: > No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different, > check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the > sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation > which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).
I did some debugging on that on 5.2-current with sane-backends 1.0.14. I only have a HP-6270C, but it shows symptoms similar to your HP-5200C. The USB Controller is a VIA 83C572 chipset. I used xsane when debugging the hp driver. Scenario I. 1. Scanner attached to /dev/usb1. 2. Run xsane, xscanimage and friends under an unprivileged user. 3. Don't want to pass the [driver:/device] parameter to your scanner app. What happens? The initialization code steps thru the usb devices until it finds a device that matches a driver:device in /usr/local/etc/sane.d/. If a permission for a /dev/usbx device is missing and no matching device could be found, the initialization code calls sane_exit and the program terminates. [simply spoken] So, if our scanner is attached to /dev/usb1 one need to set "proper" permissions on /dev/usb0, /dev/usb1 and /dev/uscanner0. crw-rw---- 1 root operator 243, 255 Jun 6 14:10 usb crw-rw-rw- 1 root operator 243, 0 Jun 6 14:10 usb0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root operator 243, 1 Jun 6 14:10 usb1 crw-rw---- 1 root operator 243, 2 Jun 6 14:10 usb2 crw-rw---- 1 root operator 243, 3 Jun 6 14:10 usb3 crw-rw-rw- 1 root operator 242, 0 Jun 10 19:31 uscanner0 Scenario II. 1. Scanner is attached to /dev/usb1. 2. Run xsane, xscanimage and friends under an unprivileged user. 3. Pass the [driver:/device] opt to your scanner app. (ie. hp:/dev/uscanner) 4. Modes of /dev/usb* /dev/uscanner0: crw-rw---- 1 root operator 243, 255 Jun 6 14:10 usb crw-rw---- 1 root operator 243, 0 Jun 6 14:10 usb0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root operator 243, 1 Jun 6 14:10 usb1 crw-rw---- 1 root operator 243, 2 Jun 6 14:10 usb2 crw-rw---- 1 root operator 243, 3 Jun 6 14:10 usb3 crw-rw-rw- 1 root operator 242, 0 Jun 10 19:31 uscanner0 What happens here? The great difference here is that /dev/usb0 is left at default mode 660. In general, modes 666 for /dev/usb1 and /dev/uscanner0 are sufficient, but device handling by the driver is different. It looks like the driver doesn't keep the device open (which it does in scenario I.): [hp] hp_GetOpenDevice: device /dev/uscanner0 not open [hp] hp_nonscsi_open: device /dev/uscanner0 opened, fd=24 [hp] hp_AddOpenDevice: /dev/uscanner0 should not be kept open Sometimes when the driver issues a scsi_flush to the scanner the scanner/app hangs for several minutes. Normally such large delay only occurs as a result of i/o errors, but not during normal operation (as under scenario I.). [hp] scsi_flush: writing 2 bytes: [hp] 0x0000 1B 45 .E [waits several minutes here] Furthermore setting environment SANE_DEFAULT_DEVICE to "hp:/dev/uscanner0" does not work for xsane and xscanimage. According to the manpages it should work. What can you do? A simple way to make your scanner work without the devicename, is to plug the scanners usb cable into usb port 0 and do a 'chmod 666 /dev/usb0'. This should make your gimp-plugin happy. In my mind scanner initialization runs faster and more stable, if the device stays open (as in scenario I.). You can make startup initialization a little faster by removing unneeded drivers from /usr/local/etc/sane.d/dll.conf. The line 'hp' should suffice. Hint: Dust on the optical device also can slow down or break the calibration process of your scanner. > > Is there a configuration file where I should define the default scanner, > i.e. "hp:/dev/uscanner0" ? See SANE_DEFAULT_DEVICE above. > > A side effect of this is (I believe), that sane doesn't work as a plugin > with Gimp. I think Gimp first tries to probe the scanner devices, it > doesn't get any, so the plugin doesn't work. Or something like this. > (Yes, I have compiled sane with "WITH_GIMP=yes"). > > Thanks for the help. > Rob. > -- Christian Hiris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | OpenPGP KeyID 0x941B6B0B OpenPGP-Key at hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net and http://pgp.mit.edu
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