Thank you, Marcia, I bet this will be a help for some time to come. On Sunday 22 September 2002 07:29 pm, you wrote: > et wrote: > >On Sunday 22 September 2002 12:42 pm, you wrote: > >>Dear All, > >> > >>I really do not know if there is a connection but since I got my scanner > >>working I cannot get Gimp to open anymore. It starts to and stops at > >>/usr/lib/gimp-1.2plugins/miff or something close to this. The scanner > >>works with the lib gimp plugin now , with xsane and with kooka. I am > >>pleased about this since I had to apply the niash patch to the > >>sane-backend as well as do some configuration to get my unsupported > >>HP4300c scanjet (USB) working. Does anyone know how I can get the gimp > >>to work again? > >> > >>Thanks for the help. > >> > >>Marcia > > > >I bet everyone would love to hear how you got the scanner to work, and > > maybe someone in the future will read the archives and be able to get > > their scanner working too... so... how did you do it? > > First of all my Gimp opens just fine now. It seemed to resolve itself. > Thank you all for your help. > > To get my HP 4300c to work: > > I got the testtool which contains the patch script for the sane-backend > from http://sourceforge.net/projects/hp3300backend/. On this page you > can find the forum which provided most of the help for me. > > Here is my account of how I got my HP 4300c usb scanner to work. To > patch SANE do the following: > > 1) Download and unpack the testtool and sane-backends source packages > 2) Copy to usr/local/src > 2) install libusb: > http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/libusb/libusb-0.1.5.tar.gz > usb.h comes from libusb0.1.5, make sure you uninstalled libusb0.1.4 > with no deps. Then do any make uninstall of libusb0.15, and the > ./configure , make, su to root and make install. > YOU WILL need to run ./configure | make | make install again on > sane-backends-1.0.8 AFTER reinstalling libusb-0.1.5 ! > 3) Unpacking the testtool package is done by: > tar -xzvf testtool-20020816_1.tar.gz > which creates a directory 'testtool' with some files in it, including > the readme. Run make in the testtool directory. > 4) Go to the testtool directory and patch sane-backends: > ./patch-sane.sh ~/sane-backend-1.0.8 > the patch script should be run with the path to the sane-backends > sources as an argument. > In my case it was: > ./patch-sane.sh /usr/local/src/sane-backends-1.0.8 > (substitute the proper sane-backend directory) > 5) Go to the sane-backend directory and build sane-backends: > ./configure > make > make install > > It is suggested to first try the testtool before trying to make SANE work. > > In addition to the directions above, I copied some of the niash > specific binaries to a directory belonging to an already installed sane > rpm. Then I added niash to the dll.conf file and ran ldconfig. This way > I did not have to uninstall the sane that was already setup. > > Here are the steps for this below: > > 1) copied backend/.libs/libsane-niash.so.1.0.8 to /usr/lib/sane > 2) made some symlinks in /usr/lib/sane named libsane-niash.so.1 and > libsane-niash.so pointing to the file just copied. > 3) added niash to /etc/sane.d/dll.conf > 4) ran ldconfig > 5) changed /dev/usbscanner in niash.conf to /dev/usb/scanner0- if > your device is a different name then you would use that name instead of > /dev/usb/scanner0. > > I hope this is complete. There is alot of help from sourceforge and > other instructions if you want to install another method. The author of > testtool promptly answered my questions in the forum. This testtool also > works for HP 3300c, HP 3400c, and the Agfa Touch. The one problem I am > still having is my image is stretched which the author told me is > supposed to be fixed so I am waiting for an answer about this right now. > If anyone gets their HP scanner running and does not have a stretched > image please let me know. Otherwise I am very pleased to have it working > so well. > > Sincerely, > > Marcia
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