can you get the original poster to put it back to stock, and get a debug log like this:
SANE_DEBUG_SANEI_SCSI=5 SANE_DEBUG_HP=128 scanimage -L allan On 3/27/08, Johannes Meixner <jsmeix at suse.de> wrote: > > Hello, > > I got a bug report from a user where his HP SCSI scanner > was not found by default by the hp backend, see > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=350688 > in particular starting at > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=350688#c8 > > It worked with openSUSE 10.2 but fails for openSUSE 10.3. > Both 10.2 and 10.3 provide sane-backends version 1.0.18. > I cannot reproduce it myself because I don't have the > needed hardware so that I can only guess that the > problem happens also for sane-backends 1.0.19. > > Since openSUSE 10.3 we use libata for IDE devices > which makes IDE devices appear as generic SCSI devices. > The user has a HP disk drive which gets /dev/sg2 > and his HP C2520A 3503 ScanJet gets /dev/sg4. > > It seems the hp backend detects the HP disk drive > and of course fails to access it as a SCSI scanner > but then it seems the hp backend gives up to further > scan the SCSI bus for the HP SCSI scanner. > > It helps when the user changes the default entry > scsi HP > in /etc/sane.d/hp.conf to a more specific entry > scsi HP C2520A > so that the hp backend detects only the SCSI scanner. > > > The problem might not happen only with libata > but also when there is another real HP SCSI device > before the HP SCSI scanner. > > I am really no SCSI expert so that I don't know > if the root cause of the problem is within the hp backend > or if it is perhaps a general problem in the lower-level > SANE SCSI functions. > > > Perhaps it is possible to work around the problem > with a better default entry in /etc/sane.d/hp.conf > so that only HP SCSI scanners are detected or perhaps > one might have by default a complete explicite list > according to the SCSI models in "man sane-hp" like > scsi HP C1130A > scsi HP C1750A > scsi HP C1790A > scsi HP C2500A > scsi HP C2520A > scsi HP C2570A > scsi HP C5100A > scsi HP C5110A > scsi HP C6270A > scsi HP C7670A > > What do you think? > > > Kind Regards > Johannes Meixner > -- > SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany > AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex > > > -- > 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"
