You should try latest CVS version (available from SANE website). 1.0.18 doesn't include support of your scanner.
On 7/12/07, Frank <frank.billot at free.fr> wrote: > 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 > > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org > -- Ilia Sotnikov
