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

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

[CJoeB]

 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.

Regards,

Colleen

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

[Daniel Pielmeier]

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=

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Daniel Pielmeier

Re: [gentoo-user] HP C4795 All-in-One Att'n Neil Bothwick

[CJoeB]

 On 11/02/10 07:27, Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
> 2010/11/2 CJoeB <colleen.beamer@gmail.com>:
>>  Hi,
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
> 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=

Thanks for the link.  I got the scanner working and BTW, I did do a
google search, but the search parameters I used only returned stuff from
my previous posts.

The reason for the "Att'n Neil Bothwick" in the subject line is because
Neil responded months ago when I had the scanner working the first time,
but could only run xsane as root, not as a normal user.  Neil responded
suggesting that I write a udev rule and gave me an example:

SYSFS{product}=="CanoScan", SYSFS{manufacturer}=="Canon",
GROUP:="scanner", MODE:="0660"

I used this to write a udev rule after reading some documentation.  Of
course I changed the product and manufacturer in the above line to what
is applicable to my HP C4795.  After rebooting, I was able to run xsane
as a normal user.  However, when I run it from the command line, a bunch
of messages appear and I'm not sure if there is a problem or if I didn't
write the rule correctly.

This is the message that repeats itself in the terminal window:

(xsane:10566): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with
non-zero page size is deprecated

Do I need to be concerned about this?

Regards,

Colleen




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Re: [gentoo-user] HP C4795 All-in-One Att'n Neil Bothwick

[Daniel Pielmeier]

2010/11/3 CJoeB <colleen.beamer@gmail.com>:
>
> Thanks for the link.  I got the scanner working and BTW, I did do a
> google search, but the search parameters I used only returned stuff from
> my previous posts.

Good to hear!

> The reason for the "Att'n Neil Bothwick" in the subject line is because
> Neil responded months ago when I had the scanner working the first time,
> but could only run xsane as root, not as a normal user.  Neil responded
> suggesting that I write a udev rule and gave me an example:
>
> SYSFS{product}=="CanoScan", SYSFS{manufacturer}=="Canon",
> GROUP:="scanner", MODE:="0660"
>
> I used this to write a udev rule after reading some documentation.  Of
> course I changed the product and manufacturer in the above line to what
> is applicable to my HP C4795.  After rebooting, I was able to run xsane
> as a normal user.

sane-backends should provide udev rules maybe there is something
wrong/missing for your scanner.

> However, when I run it from the command line, a bunch
> of messages appear and I'm not sure if there is a problem or if I didn't
> write the rule correctly.
>
> This is the message that repeats itself in the terminal window:
>
> (xsane:10566): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with
> non-zero page size is deprecated
>
> Do I need to be concerned about this?

Don't think so. It's just some gtk deprecation warnings. The xsane
developers should be concerned about this messages though.

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Daniel Pielmeier