first thing- can you, as root, do this: scanimage > foo.pnm
and then look at foo.pnm with an image viewer of your choice? allan On 7/28/07, Robert Wessling <robertwessling at verizon.net> wrote: > Hello, > > I received this email from Oliver Rauch. > > Hello Robert, > > to start xsane call xsane without options. > When xsane does not find a device then please contact the sane-devel > mailing list on http://www.sane-project.org or the author of the backend > that should support your scanner. > > Best regards > Oliver > > I did as he suggests and nothing happened. I did it bot a me > and as root. > > I have gathered the information below and hope someone can help me > use my HP Officejet 4215's scanning function. I can use the scanning > function when I switch from Fedora Linux to Windows XP. There is a > scan button on my Officejet 4215. When I press it, the message on the LCD > display says to install the scanning software. Under Windows XP2, because I > used the cd supplied by HP to setup my printer, there is a desktop item > labeled HP Director. When I click in that I can select and use the scan > function. So, O kow the printer hardware works under Windows XP. However, I > want to stop using Windows and regain all the resources it ties up. > Attached is a file with all the information I have gathered trying to my make > my Officejet 4215 work under Feodora Redhat Linux. > > Boob Wessling > > > > I am seeking help to be able to use my HP 4215 all-in-one printer to scan and > fax on Fedora 5 Linux. I have been working on this goal for weeks. > > When I run xsane, a page appears that is too large to fit my screen. The page > is longer than my screen can diplay. I can't scroll down the page, so I > can't be sure I am at the bottom of the page. The page has to do with > warnings about xsane and starts with these two lines. I beleive my monitor > is setup properly. It is a Dell M782P and that is how I configured it. > > The output of xsane -v is below > > xsane -v > xsane-0.991 (c) 1998-2006 Oliver Rauch > E-mail: Oliver.Rauch at xsane.org > package xsane-0.991 > compiled with GTK-2.8.20 > without GIMP support > XSane output formats: jpeg, pdf(compr.), png, pnm, ps(compr.), tiff, > txt > > I don't know how to recompile xsane with gimp and I don't know if I need to. > > I have searched the internet for articles. I have installed the 2.7.6 > version of hplip. I am not sure the installation is good. > > The tool sane-find-scanner produces the output below. > > # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the > # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your > # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer. > > # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure > that > # you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter. > > found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0, product=0x3d11) at libusb:002:003 > # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported > by > # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage. > > > # Not checking for parallel port scanners. > > # Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports > # can't be detected by this program. > > # You may want to run this program as root to find all devices. Once you > # found the scanner devices, be sure to adjust access permissions as > # necessary. > > So, it appears the scanner is found. > > I had to run scanimage as root to get this output. Here is a ls -l > scanimage > > [root at localhost robertwessling]# ls -l /usr/bin/scanimage > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 42836 Sep 8 2006 /usr/bin/scanimage > > I don't see any permission problem. > > The output from scanimage -L is below > > device `hpaio:/usb/officejet_4200_series?serial=CN4C2FH1DV' is a > Hewlett-Packard officejet_4200_series all-in-one > > The serial=CN4C2FH1DV is my Hp 4215 officejet printer's serial number. > > When I type whereis hpaio, I find nothing. When I search for /dev, I find the > output below > > > > crw------- 1 root root 10, 228 Jun 30 11:31 hpet > > > crw------- 1 root root 253, 0 Jun 30 11:31 usbdev1.1_ep00 > crw------- 1 root root 253, 1 Jun 30 11:31 usbdev1.1_ep81 > crw------- 1 root root 253, 2 Jun 30 11:31 usbdev2.1_ep00 > crw------- 1 root root 253, 3 Jun 30 11:31 usbdev2.1_ep81 > crw------- 1 root root 253, 12 Jul 2 15:48 usbdev2.3_ep00 > crw------- 1 root root 253, 13 Jul 2 15:48 usbdev2.3_ep01 > crw------- 1 root root 253, 19 Jul 6 09:37 usbdev2.3_ep03 > crw------- 1 root root 253, 16 Jul 2 15:48 usbdev2.3_ep07 > crw------- 1 root root 253, 14 Jul 2 15:48 usbdev2.3_ep81 > crw------- 1 root root 253, 15 Jul 2 15:48 usbdev2.3_ep82 > crw------- 1 root root 253, 20 Jul 6 09:37 usbdev2.3_ep83 > crw------- 1 root root 253, 21 Jul 6 09:37 usbdev2.3_ep84 > crw------- 1 root root 253, 17 Jul 2 15:48 usbdev2.3_ep87 > crw------- 1 root root 253, 18 Jul 2 15:48 usbdev2.3_ep88 > crw------- 1 root root 253, 4 Jun 30 11:31 usbdev3.1_ep00 > crw------- 1 root root 253, 5 Jun 30 11:31 usbdev3.1_ep81 > crw------- 1 root root 253, 6 Jun 30 11:31 usbdev4.1_ep00 > crw------- 1 root root 253, 7 Jun 30 11:31 usbdev4.1_ep81 > crw------- 1 root root 253, 8 Jul 5 12:49 usbdev4.5_ep00 > crw------- 1 root root 253, 9 Jul 5 12:49 usbdev4.5_ep02 > crw------- 1 root root 253, 11 Jul 5 12:49 usbdev4.5_ep81 > crw------- 1 root root 253, 10 Jul 5 12:49 usbdev4.5_ep86 > > I don't know if can use these devices or do I need to create > my own. > > > -- > 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 > -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
