HP Scanner Difficulties

jim tate mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net
Thu May 6 12:24:48 UTC 2004


Tim Waugh wrote:

>On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 08:42:51PM -0500, Jason Knight wrote:
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>>>For PSC devices you should install libsane-hpoj -- my multifunction
>>>scanner is working very well here and has been since FC1.
>>>      
>>>
>>[root at localhost root]# rpm -q libsane-hpoj
>>libsane-hpoj-0.91-6
>>
>>Is there some kind of config file I need to run first though? As I am 
>>not running any hpoj files or binaries, (except the one started by 
>>Kudzu). The scanner was auto found by kudzu as below snip from 
>>/etc/sysconfig/hwconf shows:
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>There's no automatic detection for hpoj devices yet I'm afraid.  You
>need to run 'service hpoj setup' as root first.  Access permissions
>are handled completely differently to normal USB devices.
>
>When setting the printer up make sure to use PTAL rather than USB.
>
>Tim.
>*/
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I have a HP4200C and finally I understand that is supposed to work with new
sane-backends.
If i run scanimage -L , I get a  vendor=0x4b8,  product=0x0602, 
chip-GT-6816?) at libusb:003:004.
What do I need to do to get it to install properly?

Jim Tate






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