Hello I just upgraded to RedHat 7.3, which ships with sane 1.0.7 and my HP IIcx stopped working, I mean that no frontend would talk to it (scanimage, kooka, xsane). I then down-graded to sane 1.0.5, and the scanner works again. The log below shows how I first upgrade to sane 1.0.7, the diagnostic routine sane-find-scanner still finds the scanner but no frontend. It also shows how downgrading to sane 1.0.5 makes the frontends recoginize the scanner again. According to the SANE homepage, the HP IIcx is still supported.
sessionlog: [root@micky jost]# rpm -Uvh sane-backends-1.0.7-6.i386.rpm sane-backends-devel-1.0.7-6.i386.rpm sane-frontends-1.0.7-2.i386.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:sane-backends ########################################### [ 33%] 2:sane-backends-devel ########################################### [ 66%] 3:sane-frontends ########################################### [100%] [root@micky jost]# sane-find-scanner # Note that sane-find-scanner will find any scanner that is connected # to a SCSI bus and some scanners that are connected to the Universal # Serial Bus (USB) depending on your OS. It will even find scanners # that are not supported at all by SANE. It won't find a scanner that # is connected to a parallel or proprietary port. sane-find-scanner: found SCSI processor "HP C2500A 3332" at device /dev/sg1 [root@micky jost]# scanimage -L No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different, check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages). [root@micky jost]# scanimage -d hp:/dev/sg1 scanimage: open of device hp:/dev/sg1 failed: Invalid argument [root@micky jost]# [root@micky jost]# rpm -Uvh --replacefiles --force --oldpackage sane-backends-1.0.5-4.i386.rpm sane-backends-devel-1.0.5-4.i386.rpm sane-frontends-1.0.5-2.i386.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:sane-backends ########################################### [ 33%] 2:sane-backends-devel ########################################### [ 66%] 3:sane-frontends ########################################### [100%] [root@micky jost]# scanimage -L device `hp:/dev/sg1' is a Hewlett-Packard C2500A flatbed scanner [root@micky jost]#
