Hi, I got the things working. The G4050 scans without light with the newest genesys backend from git. When installing the new git-version (1.0.24) the backends did not get updated (scanimage was still using the 1.0.22 backends). Sorry for the spam.
Cheers, Christian > Gesendet: Montag, 16. September 2013 um 17:21 Uhr > Von: "c...... g......" <muddlehead at gmx.net> > An: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > Betreff: hp g4050 > > Hi, > > I'm in the need of a scanner, which offers the possibility to scan with the > lamp switched off (using an external light source for scanning). I bought a > HP G4050 as was suggested on this mailing list. > > When I use the sane-genesys backend with this scanner, the "--lamp-off-scan" > option is unrecognized (even with the cvs version). Can anyone confirm, that > this scanner is/will be able to scan with the lamp switched off? > > Cheers, > Christian