Ralph Shumaker wrote:
Once upon a time, I had HP somesuch in my menu (possibly back on fc4).
I'm currently on FC7 and I swear there used to be something in the menus
about the scanner or sane or whatnot. I cannot find scanner stuff.
I just now did:
$ apropos scanner | front
and got a hit on xsane. I ran xsane, it scanned for devices and found
none. Now, I *know* I've successfully scanned in with that scanner.
$ apropos scanner
gave me a couple screens full. I have no idea where to start.
I have the HP5610 All-In-One (including fax) on FC7. I have no trouble
printing to it, so it's not a physical connection problem.
I seek advice.
I did a quick search for you and most people
were very happy with this device and the xsane
use of it. Linux.com says nice things too...
"Setting up the Officejet 5610 for use with the
XSane scanning application requires no effort at
all, at least on the distributions I tried it
with. XSane detects the scanner at startup time,
and it's ready to use -- period. You don't have
to do anything. Life on the Linux desktop has
changed considerably since the days when I wrote
an article entitled "Sane is making me crazy." "
http://www.linux.com/feature/114181
I did run across one link that may have a tip
for you from someone that only has a problem
with scan/xsane:
"Well for me my printer was /dev/bus/usb/002/002
Yours may be a different device, anyways, you
may have to have a look at each directory and
device there to find the correct one. Right
clicking on the devices and selecting
properties, permissions will show the info you
need, you are looking for the one with root as
owner and the group lp. Make it readable and
writable. Then it should work fine for you.
It worked. Thank you very much for your help."
http://tinyurl.com/3asjud
This is from a SuSe forum but the tip is about
device permissions and the hplip driver....
rbw
HTH
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