I recently have a need to get my HP ScanJet 5590 working. Never used it in suse, only in the old windoze daze. Running opensuse 11.2, kde 4.3.4 quite nicely.
When I dusted the scanner off (USB) and plugged it in and fired it up, then went into Yast, scanner, it correctly recognized the scanner by model, but the driver line has Not configured: in front of the driver info. And, it will not do a test scan, nor do any apps see the scanner. As far as I can see all the dependencies are installed, I just need to configure the scanner. But I can’t find any place in Yast to do that, nor do I have a clue what command line would work.
What scanning utility do you have installed? I guess I’ve been lucky in that
I just use Gimp, and it just works without my intervention. File -> Create -
> XSane: Device Dialog opens the scanning tool for me using an old Canon
scanner. This doesn’t help of course unless you just haven’t installed Sane,
Kooka, or some other tool yet. Perhaps it’s configured by one of the
utilities?
BobTheBull wrote:
>
> I recently have a need to get my HP ScanJet 5590 working. Never used it
> in suse, only in the old windoze daze. Running opensuse 11.2, kde 4.3.4
> quite nicely.
>
> When I dusted the scanner off (USB) and plugged it in and fired it up,
> then went into Yast, scanner, it correctly recognized the scanner by
> model, but the driver line has Not configured: in front of the driver
> info. And, it will not do a test scan, nor do any apps see the scanner.
> As far as I can see all the dependencies are installed, I just need to
> configure the scanner. But I can’t find any place in Yast to do that,
> nor do I have a clue what command line would work.
>
> Any clues, anybody?
>
>
For my multifunction HP scanner/printer to work, I have hplip and hplip-hpijs installed. I configured the scanner in YaST, … and then I scan using xsane. I am a KDE user, and I note that I also have sane-backends, libksane0, sane-backends-autoconfig, and xsane installed.
I am assuming that in the YAST screen you selected that line, clicked EDIT and then selected your scanner ?
Personally I found YAST scanner setup too slow and messed up my scanner config. I went to sane scanner website and just edited a single file
/etc/sane.d/dll.conf uncomment the hp5590.
Anyway
sane-find-scanner from the command line, does it find your scanner
scanimage -L should list the scanners it finds.
Thanks guys, got it working. Didn’t go far enough down the list to find the scanner drivers. It now show up in scanimage.
Now to figure out how to use it. This scanner has a document feeder and does duplex scanning, which is what I need to do right now. I did see a program scanadf for document feeders, but it is not in my repositories. Or would I be better off just installing the hp software that came with it in my xp virtual guest?