Dan McGhee wrote: > I did all of this on 20050306. I have a HP Scanjet 5370C (Avision). > > Compiled and installed libusb-0.1.10a, sane-backends-1.0.15 and > sane-frontends-1.0.13. All were release versions. For sane-backends > I used avision.c, avision.h, avision.conf, sanei_usb.c and sanei_usb.h > from http://svn.exactcode.de/sane-avision/trunk/. In everything I > used <./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc. (Except maybe I > didn't set sysconfdir for libusb--could this be the problem?)
Recompiled everything and made sure that directories were what I wanted. > > In xscanimage and xsane, I get "garbage" in the preview window when I > select "Acquire Preview." I also noticed that in all cases the > scanner light comes on, travels a very small distance and then turns > off. The scanner sounds normal. I checked out the cvs version of sane. The scanner now scans, but for a preview scan I get vertical colored lines in a black and white document When I scan, the image is rotated 45 degrees clockwise and the colored lines are still there--also rotated. I can try to "hack" on the avision.c file--I'm not really very good at this--to see if I can find the differences between the cvs and the latest build. Pointers? > By the way, I also am having problems with permissions. The scanner > is not recognized unless I am "root." I have > /etc/hotplug/usb/libusbscanner with "ugo=x". I noticed that the > arguments are commented: > I think I forgot to run "ldconfig" when I copied libusbscanner. No permissions problem anymore. OOOOPS. Sorry. > > Once again I will appreciate any and all help. > > Thanks, > > Dan > Thanks again, Dan
