[ale] xsane & usb scanner

[Dow Hurst]

Here is a link that should help.  I don't think you actually need ptal 
for this device since it should understand the HPSCL that SANE's hp 
backend can send via the USB bus.

http://www.kirchgessner.net/sane.html

Dow


Dow Hurst wrote:

> Have you looked in the sane-hp man page?  There are references to a 
> hp.conf file that should contain entries for your scanner.  Do you 
> ptal configured and running?  The HP software "ptal" provides the 
> lowlevel access to the scanner hardware for the Sane backend to talk 
> thru.  Sounds complicated but is a three layer package:
> Scanning client like Kooka or xsane
> Sane front end and backend
> Ptal package from HP
>
> You should install the ptal rpm from HP sourceforge page for Redhat.  
> Then do "ptal-init setup" to find and initialize the scanner.  Retry 
> xsane.  I'd read what docs you can find on the HP site as they were 
> detailed for the SuSE rpm installation section and should be for 
> RedHat as well.
>
> Christopher Russell wrote:
>
>> Hi, hope that someone out there can help a newbie.
>>
>> PROBLEM: installing USB Scanner; Cannot get the xsane 'frontend' to see
>> the xsane 'backend.'
>>
>> - How do I manually configure the scanner?
>>
>> SPECIFICATION:
>> USB HP ScanJet 6200C, RH_8.0 kernel 2.4.18-27; w/ xsane v0.90 frontend
>> and xsane v1.0.11 backend, (latest version).
>>
>> BACKGROUND:
>> When I run xsane gui, (GNOMEmenu>graphics>Scanning), xsane frontend
>> launches and runs a device search, which fails. Help says possible
>> "backend not loaded" or "not configured."
>> WHAT I HAVE DONE SO FAR:
>> Read the man pages, but am now confused -but did these tests:
>> [chris at cedar sane-1.0.11]$ scanimage -L
>> device `hp:/dev/usb/scanner0' is a Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 62x0C flatbed
>> scanner
>> [chris at cedar chris]$
>>
>> - so we know the device is there!
>>
>> [chris at cedar chris]$ scanimage \-d test
>> P5
>> # SANE data follows
>> 157 196 255
>> [chris at cedar chris]$
>>
>> - these numbers apparently indicate a test response, but I've no idea
>> what they mean!
>>
>> QUESTION SUMMARY:
>> The device is there, the driver for my model of scanner is within the
>> dll library, I looked, but something's not right.
>>
>> All advice appreciated, thanks in advance,
>> Chris
>>
>>
>>
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