RE: [hpoj-devel] testing with T65

[PASCHAL,DAVID (HP-Roseville,ex1) <dav...@hp...>]

Gerard H. Pille [mailto:gh...@sk...] wrote:
> Finally, the days of scanning with HP Officejet T65 are neigh.
> 
> David, if you weren't so ugly, I could kiss you.
Be careful about translating colloquial expressions like this.  Such a
remark might be perfectly acceptable in some cultures/languages, but here in
the U.S. it would be considered an insult.  Of course, I'm sure you didn't
mean it that way, so I'll let it slide.  :-)

> After recompiling a 2.4.4 kernel without parport, xojpanel appeared,
> showing almost exactly what was on the Officejet's display 
> itself.  Only
> the dust was lacking.
Come over to my house and you can have some of my dust.  :-)

> Even after dusting, xojpanel was still better
> readable than the actual display.  I suppose this will 
> improve in later
> releases.  Still, the feeling I had when I saw there was something at
> the other end of the parallel cable, will only be surpassed when
> intelligent life will be found on earth.
Joe Piolunek (who qualifies as "intelligent life on earth") deserves the
credit for improving the xojpanel application.

> But I am less lucky with scanimage, it hangs after:
...
> I am running a 2.4.4
> SMP kernel on a Abit VP6 with two Intel 866Mhz PIII's.  CVS hpoj dates
> from yesterday, and I'm using sane-backends-1.0.4.  Had to specify
> --with-ptal=/usr/local and --enable-shared allthough these 
> are supposed
> to be default.  Otherwise sane configure did not find -lptal  
> (there is
> no libptal.a and configure runs a test compiling -static).
> 
> Come on David, I know you can do it.
Scanning on the T series is not yet supported by SANE.  For now, use the
"ptal-hp" command-line application, which is part of the hpoj package in
CVS.  To do a color scan, just insert your document and run the command
"ptal-hp mlc:par:0 scan".  Append the "-help" switch for a list of options.

I will look into the problem with configuring SANE with PTAL.  What
distribution and version are you using?  I've had library problems on RedHat
7.1, and this may be a similar issue.

David