On Fri, 26 Jul 2019 11:19:22 -0500 Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 7/26/19 3:33 AM, Stephen Berman via blfs-support wrote: >> On Fri, 26 Jul 2019 02:20:01 +0200 Christopher Gregory via blfs-support >> <[email protected]> wrote: [...] >>> I hate to be the one who says this, but as you have probably already >>> realized >>> by now, there is not going to be much that people on this list are going to >>> be >>> able to suggest to correct this, as it is most likely going to end up being >>> an >>> issue with the binary. >> >> Yes, that seems likely. Still, HP all-in-one devices are pretty common, >> so I would think that there are other BLFS users with one and it could >> be helpful to know if some of them are able to use the hplip scanner >> plug-in under BLFS (while recognizing that may not help me to use it >> with my device, precisely because it's a binary). > > Yes, I do have an Officejet_Pro_6970 and it works fine for me. However, I am > using an older version of hplip, 3.16.11. My notes say that I need to build, > in order, > > cups > ghostscript > cups-filters > gutenprint I haven't installed gutenprint and it doesn't seem to be needed by hplip-3.19.3 or 3.19.6. > sane (for hplip) > net-snmp (for hplip, not in blfs) net-snmp is listed as optional in the two hplip versions I have built and I don't currently need network support for the device, though I may try rebuilding with it later. > hplip (not in blfs) > > For some reason I needed to build hplip with ./configure --prefix=/usr > --enable-pp-build > > Didn't make sense to me since I'm accessing the printer via ethernet, but it > was needed to get things to work. In 3.19.3 and 3.19.6 configure --help says this is "(default=no)(Deprecated)" and both build without it. > I then use xsane for scanning, but getting scanning to work was tricky. I need > to have an environment variable: > > SANE_DEFAULT_DEVICE='hpaio:/net/Officejet_Pro_6970?ip=192.168.0.204' > > And had to massage /etc/cups/printers.conf: > DeviceURI socket://192.168.0.204:9100 These look like requirements for a network connection, which again is not something I currently need. > and add in HP_OfficeJet_Pro_6970.ppd > > As far as I know, there is no binary in my installation. In contrast, my device seems to require the binary plugin to use the scanner, which I finally got working (see my followup DJ Lucas). Thanks for the feedback. Steve Berman -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
