Re: [hpoj-devel] PSC 500: Scanning problem

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Hi, Alain.

Alain wrote:
>   But the real problem is with scanning.  I would really like to get it 
> going.  I have downloaded SANE 1.0.4 and followed the instructions in the 
> SCAN-HOWTO file.  One thing that puzzles me is that the SANE docs seems to 
> mention exclusively SCSI interfaces, which I obviously don't have.
SANE tends to have a slight bias towards SCSI, since most of the scanners it
supports use SCSI.  However, there are several other connection methods
supported for specific backends, such as HP.

> The err 
> msg I get is this:
> 
> # scanimage --test
> scanimage: no SANE devices found   
> 
> So, why is there no SANE device recognized by the system?
There are a couple of things we can check here.  First of all,
when building SANE, check the output of ./configure to make sure it found
PTAL (step 7 in SCAN-HOWTO).  Also, make sure you edited
/usr/local/etc/sane.d/hp.conf so it contains the following two lines
(step 13):
	mlc:mlcpp0
	option connect-ptal

Also, make sure you didn't already have SANE installed, because Mandrake
includes RPMs for SANE.  Issue the command "rpm -qa|grep -i sane".

I hope this helps.

David