[Techtalk] HP3970 scanner with sane

[Anne Wainwright]

Hi all,

Trying to get hp scanjet3970 to work
find 'NEW' driver stuff on SANE site

all updated
scanner / usb module loaded
'scanner' in /etc/modules  (debian stuff)
see scanner drivers mentioned in dmesg so all goes ok at startup

#sane-find-scanner finds it (says (probably) in brackets)*
#scanimage -L does not find it
#quiteinsane reports no devices found

the driver is featured "NEW!" on the sane site, and it has a standalone option (ie I suppose you don't have to worry about updating sane if you have issues with that).

I have tried both standalone and sane  installations, but doesn't go either way. Oddly, I find nowhere in the readme any way to call the standalone option. Do I misunderstand the use of this, won't it have a name like Xsane or quiteinsane?

* only when I run as root. it then says 'once you have found the scanner devices adjust access permissions as necessary'. can someone expand please? I see under /dev/usb there are scanner entries (like -scanner0 to -scanner15) which are all set at 666 and owner is root/root

There is a group called scanner and I am a member of that

Any help gratefully received.

Anne



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so much to do, so little time :(