Re: [gentoo-user] HP C4795 All-in-One

[Daniel Pielmeier <billie@gentoo.org>]

2010/11/2 CJoeB <colleen.beamer@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