On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 21:55:58 +0200, Bertrik Sikken <[email protected]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Huub wrote: >>>> Tried to install it, but no such luck. Any other suggestion? >>> >>> I think lsusb is usually part of the usbutils package. >>> >>> Otherwise try sane-find-scanner. >>> >> >> Here's lsusb output in attachment. > > Weird, I don't see the scanner in the output. > > Using google, I was able to find part of the sane-project.org > pages. The HP4370 is possibly supported by the hp3900 backend > (marked as 'Untested. Please report if it works.') > > hp3900 backend page: > http://sourceforge.net/projects/hp3900-series/ > > The hp3900 page indicates that the scanner uses a RTS8822 chipset. > > There is also another backend for this chipset: hp_rts88xx > http://hp44x0backend.sourceforge.net/ > > For both backends you will need to be able to compile the sane-backends > sources from scratch. There is no guarantee that it will eventually > work. > > Regards, > Bertrik The hp3900-series backend is beta and its developper says, Scanjet 4370-users will only get black images till now. So for the time being it seems not to be a valid option. Regards Wolfram Heider
