Re: SANE Support in Fedora 9 for HP

On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 22:00 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Jeff Maxwell writes: > > > I have a very old HP OfficeJet 630 parallel port multifunction > > printer/scanner/fax machine. > > > > Prior to Fedora 9, I had no problems with xsane/sane recognizing the > > scanner function. > > > > After installing Fedora 9 and going to the Software Add to include the > > HP support for sane, xsane still can not find my device. > > > > I have installed it as a printer without any issues. > > This scanner is not listed as a supported scanner by sane: > > http://www.sane-project.org/sane-supported-devices.html > > > However, googling around suggests that there's some support in hplip: > > http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/officejet/officejet_series_63... > > Make sure you have the hplip rpm installed. It seems that the issue is between "root" and my local user. If I sign on under "root", the HP Device application has no problem finding my OfficeJet. Nor does it have any problems with the scan function. If I am signed on as my local user, the system is unable to communicate with the printer. I did find that while going through the set up process for the printer under my local sign in, that it asked for my password. After typing it in several times, I hit the cancel button. There may be a disconnect where by the application is unable to recognize my local sign on password.