August 30, 1999

NOTE: This is all VERY alpha.  Use at your own risk.  There is no
warranty expressed nor implied.


Introduction

This document will hopefully provide enough info on how to get SANE
working with a Hewlett Packard USB capable scanner using the USB
interface.  The majority of HP Scanners support the Scanner Control
Language (SCL) which is both published by HP and supported by SANE.
The only HP Scanner that I'm aware of that does not support SCL is the
4200C.  All other HP scanners with USB interfaces should work (4100C,
5200C, 6200C).  Of course as HP releases new scanners this information
may change.


Requirements

In order to get this running you'll need USB support in your kernel in
addition to USB HP Scanner support.  Please refer to README.hp_scanner
for issues pertaining to Linux USB and USB HP Scanner support.

An installed version of SANE which is available from
http://www.mostang.com/sane/.  Testing has been performed using
version SANE-1.0.1.  For instructions on building and installing SANE,
refer to the various README files within the distribution.


Ok, so what do I do?

NOTE: $INSTALL_DIR is the location where SANE was installed.  It may
be /usr/local, /usr, /opt or somewhere else.  If you don't know, ask
your system administrator.

1) Make sure that you have the libsane-hp.* libraries under the
$INSTALL_DIR/lib/sane/ directory.

2) Under the directory $INSTALL_DIR/etc/sane.d/ edit the following
files: dll.conf, hp.conf.

  dll.conf:  Make sure that the 'hp' entry is present and uncommented.

  hp.conf: This should contain two lines:

    option connect-device
    /dev/usbscanner

3) You should now be able to use SANE (xscanimage or scanimage).

Don't forget to read any relevant man pages regarding the usage of
SANE.  If you have other entries uncommented in dll.conf, you my have
to specify the device to (x)scanimage.  The xscanimage (1) man page
has info on how to get 'The Gimp' to work with xscanimage.  Note that
Gimp support must be compiled into SANE for it work.  If you are
dealing with a RedHat system, you'll also need to install the
gimp-devel rpm package.

NOTE: Most of the time xscanimage will run without incident, then on
the next invocation it'll core dump at different locations.  I don't
know why yet and I don't have a work around either other than to try
again.  But once you get it started, it'll scan without any problems
(or at least it does for me).

David /\/elson
dnelson@jump.net