2010/11/2 CJoeB <colleen.bea...@gmail.com>: > Hi, > > Before someone asks "Haven't you posted this before?", I'll respond, > "Sort of, but not really!" > > Anyway, I've reread all the previous posts. Mostly, they were related > to the printer portion of the device. The printer works fine. > > The current problem is related to the scanner. My previous post was > about not being able to use xsane as a normal user, it would only work > as root. Since posting that, I've done upgrades to my system and for > months, the scanner won't work at all - not as a normal user nor as root. > > I've tried reinstalling sane-backends and xsane using an unstable > version, but that didn't help the situation. I've checked the kernel > configuration and that looks fine. > > When installing sane-backends, after the normal USE="....", there is a > statement SANE-BACKENDS=" ... " where a number of devices are listed, > but none in the 4700 series. > > I have no idea what is going on here. I don't scan much, but tonight > when I desperately needed to scan I couldn't despite my best efforts. > > BTW, I AM in the scanner group, so that is not the issue. Whenever, I > try to run xsane as a normal user or root, I get the message "No device > found". > > Help would be appreciated.
The sane project has a pretty good search engine [1] where you can find the needed driver. Hint: Try hpaio :) PS: Your internet search engine of choice is your friend. http://www.sane-project.org/cgi-bin/driver.pl?manu=Hewlett-Packard&model=Photosmart&bus=any&v=&p= -- Daniel Pielmeier
