On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 10:34:35AM -0500, P Jones wrote: > On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 20:22 -0500, Gregory Woodbury wrote: > > Does anyone use xsane and an HPOJ scanner to read photos under FC3? > > > > Under FC1 my scanner operated fine, but the upgrade to FC3 seems to have > > knocked out the scanning functions. > > > > I've checked the sane-project and xsane websites and they seem to > > indicate that just installing hpoj and configuring the OJ700 should make > > xsane see the scanner. However, sane/xsane just report no device > > available for scanning to me as both a normal user and as root. SELinux > > is in permissive mode so it doesn't seem to be a permissions problem. > > > > Any hints appreciated! > > Gregory; > > I have used HP OfficeJets of one kind or another since RH9, and they've > all worked. I am currently using a 7110 with FC3. For some reason, if > you select the hpoj package during installation, the libsane-hpoj > package doesn't get installed. So, check to see if you have libsane-hpoj > installed, and if not, install it. Then, open /etc/sane.d/dll.conf in a > text editor, scroll to the bottom, and uncomment the hpoj line. There > are directions at the bottom of the dll.conf file. > > I'm assuming you've done the whole ptal-init setup thing to have your > device recognized already? Yep, printing works fine through the ptal device. It was the missing libsane-hpoj! Thanks for the hint! -- G.Wolfe Woodbury `- -' RHCT U The Line Eater is a boojum!
