Success. I updated hplip, which replaced the /etc/sane.d/dll/conf hpoj line with hpaio. Now all is working once more :-)
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, Neil Jeff On Friday 16 November 2007 09:00:06 am Jeff Cranmer wrote: > Progress.... kind of :-/ > > I set SANE_BACKENDS to hp, and was able to compile the sane-backends > package. > > Two files were changed and flagged via etc-update. > > The first was /etc/sane.d/dll.conf, which added a bunch of scanners and > commented out hpoj. Since hpoj is part of the hplip package, and I have > this package installed, I deleted the comment character to enable this dll > > The second file was /etc/hotplug/usb/libsane.usermap > The PSC 750 usb entry was deleted, so I added this back in > # Hewlett-Packard PSC-750 > libusbscanner 0x0003 0x03f0 0x1411 0x0000 0x0000 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 > 0x00 0x00000000 > > Unfortunately, sane can no longer find my scanner, even after restarting > hotplug. > > Any assistance gratefully received. > > Thanks > > Jeff > > On Friday 16 November 2007 08:33:14 am Jeff Cranmer wrote: > > The scanner is an HP PSC-750xi > > SANE_BACKENDS is set to hpaio in make.conf. > > What should it be set to? > > > > Jeff > > > > > On Friday 16 November 2007 04:44:54 am Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > > On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:36:46 -0500, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > > > > > I do not seem to be able to update a lot of my system, because > > > > > sane-backends fails to compile. > > > > > > > > That only stops you updating sane-backends, not the rest of the > > > > system. You can skip this and continue a world update with "emerge > > > > --resume --skipfirst". > > > > > > > > > This is the error I get > > > > > > > > > > make[1]: Entering directory > > > > > `/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/sane-backends-1.0.18-r4/work/sane-backe > > > > >nd s- 1. 0.18/backend' make[1]: *** No rule to make target > > > > > `libsane-hpaio.la', needed by `all'. > > > > > > > > Which scanner do you have? What is SANE_BACKENDS set to in > > > > /etc/make.conf? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
