My OperaWell it's that time again - Arch and my HP Photosmart AIO
Monday, August 3, 2009 10:40:54 PM
If you are like me and have an HP Photosmart All In One scanner (mine is the c4435 - known as c4400 series on Linux), and you want to use sane or xsane to scan, you'll probably run into a few nasty issues. Don't fret though, we have a few simple fixes for these.
Warning: As is typical, the commands in this post are run as root, they are fairly easy, but I still take no responsibility for any damage that may arise from you following these instructions. Running anything as root on a Linux system can cause serious damage. If you are not the system administrator, computer owner, or someone authorized to be working on the system, please do not run these commands.
The first one is rather simple, add your user to the lp and scanner groups. As root, run:
Easy peasy.
The next bit is a little harder to find, it took several searches on Google, and didn't even relate to my distro. So I'm hoping this makes it easier for others to find.
What we need to do is add hpaio to the /etc/sane.d/dll.conf.
so we want to run (again as root):
A side note: you can replace nano with gedit, kate, mousepad, medit, etc. I use nano because it doesn't leave nasty temp files like gedit does, and because I feel comfortable in the command interface. The choice is yours really though.
And find the section with all the hp devices listed. I had read we should comment those out. I advise against that just so you can keep your other devices working (in case you ever hook up another scanner).
I like to keep mine organized, so I put "hpaio" in this file right after "hp".
For refernce, here is a copy of my /etc/sane.d/dll.conf file:
Hope this solves your issues like it did mine!
Happy Hacking
~Pikles~
Warning: As is typical, the commands in this post are run as root, they are fairly easy, but I still take no responsibility for any damage that may arise from you following these instructions. Running anything as root on a Linux system can cause serious damage. If you are not the system administrator, computer owner, or someone authorized to be working on the system, please do not run these commands.
The first one is rather simple, add your user to the lp and scanner groups. As root, run:
usermod -a -G lp,scanner YourUser
Easy peasy.
The next bit is a little harder to find, it took several searches on Google, and didn't even relate to my distro. So I'm hoping this makes it easier for others to find.
What we need to do is add hpaio to the /etc/sane.d/dll.conf.
so we want to run (again as root):
nano /etc/sane.d/dll.conf
A side note: you can replace nano with gedit, kate, mousepad, medit, etc. I use nano because it doesn't leave nasty temp files like gedit does, and because I feel comfortable in the command interface. The choice is yours really though.
And find the section with all the hp devices listed. I had read we should comment those out. I advise against that just so you can keep your other devices working (in case you ever hook up another scanner).
I like to keep mine organized, so I put "hpaio" in this file right after "hp".
For refernce, here is a copy of my /etc/sane.d/dll.conf file:
[p0f@p0f ~]$ cat /etc/sane.d/dll.conf # enable the next line if you want to allow access through the network: net abaton agfafocus apple avision artec artec_eplus48u as6e bh canon canon630u canon_dr canon_pp cardscan coolscan coolscan2 coolscan3 dc25 dc210 dc240 dell1600n_net dmc epjitsu epson epson2 fujitsu gphoto2 genesys gt68xx hp hp3900 hpaio hp3500 hp4200 hp5400 hp5590 hpljm1005 hpsj5s hs2p ibm leo lexmark ma1509 matsushita microtek microtek2 mustek mustek_pp mustek_usb mustek_usb2 nec niash pie pint pixma plustek plustek_pp pnm qcam ricoh rts8891 s9036 sceptre sharp sm3600 sm3840 snapscan sp15c st400 stv680 tamarack teco1 teco2 teco3 test u12 umax umax_pp umax1220u v4l xerox_mfp [p0f@p0f ~]$
Hope this solves your issues like it did mine!
Happy Hacking
~Pikles~
