Hi, On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 04:25:14PM +0200, François Patte wrote: > I am unable to have the scanner hp5400c working under linux. Here the result > of:
[...] > [hp5400] vendor/product 0x03F0-0x1005 opened > [hp5400] Read: reqtype = 0xC0, req = 0x04, value = 1200 > [hp5400] Read: reqtype = 0xC0, req = 0x04, value = C500 > [hp5400] Command 12 verified > [hp5400] Sorry, unknown scanner version. Attempted match on : > [hp5400] * 'SilitekIBlizd C3 ScannerV0.84' > [hp5400] * 'SilitekIBlizd C3 ScannerV0.86' > [hp5400] * 'SilitekIBlizd C3 ScannerV0.87' > [hp5400] Version is '' > What can I do else? Rebuild sane-backends like this: CFLAGS="-DNO_STRING_VERSION_MATCH" ./configure make make install That's untested but I think it disables the version test. See bug report: https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=300542&group_id=30186&atid=410366 Thomas: As this issue pops up from time to time can't the version test be disabled completely? bye, Henning
