HP Scanner on F8

[Sam Varshavchik]

Jonathan Allen writes:

> Hi All,
> 
> I'm trying to install a scanner in an F8 environment.  The scanner is an
> HP 5590P scanner, 0x03f0/0x1705.  As a relatively new device, this is not
> directly known to F8.  But it is known to F9, so I 'force' installed
> sane-backends-1.0.19-10.fc9.i386 to bring it in.

I don't know where the meme got started that when rpm tells you it can't 
install a package, it's just kidding, and that the -f flag is a fix that 
magically resolves all version conflicts. Some may find it hard to believe, 
but rpm does not refuse to install packages because it likes to annoy 
everyone. There are very good reasons why rpm refuses to install packages 
with version/resource conflicts.

The only thing that surprises me is that sane quietly terminates, instead of 
segfaulting and dumping core, as it has every right to do, in this case.

Furthermore, I haven't checked, but it's fairly likely that FC 9's sane is a 
different version than FC 8, so the binary ABI between sane and sane-plugins 
has changed anyway. If you take some random plugin for Office 2007, how 
likely do you think that it'll work if you plunked it into an Office 2003 
install, instead?

> Where do I go next?

Uninstall what you force-installed. The chances that this'll work is slim to 
none.

>                    'xsane' also insists that there are no scanners available.
> But I haven't a clue how to make the backend available.

Either install all of FC 9, or recompile the newer version of sane on FC 8.

Also, although sane's compatibility list does indicate that your scanner is 
barely supported, make sure that FC 9 installs at least the version of sane 
where your scanner's driver is implemented.

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