On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 09:53:44PM -0400, Glen Snyder wrote:
> Afer more than a month of effort, I finally have a working HP4200C USB scanjet. In
>order to get it working, I had to:
> *Change a line in the scanner.o
> -Rebuild the kernel with USB scanner support (can also be loaded as a module)
> -Create a device for the USB scanner (mknod /dev/usb/scanner0 c 180 48)
> -Create a symlink (ln -s /dev/usbscanner0 /dev/usbscanner)
> -Change read and write permissions (chmod 666 /dev/usbscanner0)
> -make sure the USB hardware is available for controller(lspci -v)
> and for scanner (dmesg).
> *Download the HP backend for SANE and the source code for SANE (Others can use
>Package Manager)
> *Apply HP backend to the SANE source. Do a ./configure, make, make install
> -Edit /etc/sane.d/dll.conf
> *Edit /etc/sane.d/hp.conf
> -test (scanimage -T, scanimage --help)
> -launch scanner module (xscanimage)
> -load xscanimage as a plugin in GIMP (I still have to do this, but compared to
>everything else, this is not hard)
>
>
> Lines with an asterisk(*) are unique to HP scanners.
Note that with no change required in scanner.o, you don't need to rebuild
the kernel (it already includes the scanner.o as a module).
Device files were an oversight that will be fixed...
> will have deb files for some of the "non-standard" types of
> scanners, as well as a USB module within SAS to quickly install USB
If HP's backend gets merged into standard SANE, support will be available
eventually...I don't think it is really that non-standard.
--
Ryan Murray, Projects Manager, Stormix Technologies Inc., Debian Developer
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