I have downloaded alioth.debian.org/frs/download.php/1669/sane-backends-1.0.18.tar.gz, not being sure it is the backends cvs. However, having followed the installation procedure, it does not recognize the hp5590 (no SANE devices found). There is no trace of backend dedicated to the 5590, either in the gunzip produced 'sane-backends-1.0.18' directory or in the /usr/lib/sane. the /sane-backends-1.0.18/tools/edve/libsane.rules do mention the hp5590 as usb device, so it maybe means that it is embedded in something else, so that one should not expect a specific backend file ? Maybe the solution lies in this note : # To run a script when your device is plugged in, add RUN="/path/to/script" # to the appropriate rule. but I would not know how to use it or if a script could be used do make the rule active. In case, I added 'usb 0x03f0 0x1705' in /etc/sane/d/hp.conf, with no effect. Yet, the scanner appears in lsubs as 'Bus 003 Device 003: ID 03f0:1705 Hewlett-Packard' and sane-find-scanner gives 'found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0 [Hewlett-Packard], product=0x1705 [hp scanjet scanner]) at libusb:003:003'.
It is not a matter of permission, scanimage -L gives no result under root either, even after 'chmod a+rw /proc/bus/usb/003/003'. I have suppressed a prior version of sane and reinstalled, with no success. Any clue ? Thanks Le Fri, 06 Jul 2007 19:56:10 +0200, m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com> a ?crit: > hp5590 backend has already been added to sane backends cvs, so just > check that out- you dont need the diff. > > allan > > On 7/6/07, Frank Billot <frank.billot at neuf.fr> wrote: >> the bin produces a syntax error : >> ./sane-backends-hp5590-cvs070411.diff-0001.bin: 2: Syntax error: ")" >> unexpected >> >> is there a gz version of sane-backends-hp5590-cvs070411.diff.gz >> available >> somewhere or is the problem not a version matter ? >> >> thanks -- Frank Billot