Re: Problems with HP PSC 1210 all-in-one printer on lenny - solved

[Eric Meijer <eric_no1spam1@xs4all.nl>]

Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 01:24:11PM +0200, Eric Meijer wrote:
>   
> > Hello,
> >     
>
>   
> > Questions:
> > Does anyone use the HP PSC 1210 all-in-one printer with a lenny system and
> > 1) also has a kernel hang, or not
> >     
The kernel hang disappeared after installing the 2.6.30 kernel from 
backports.org.
> > 2) can scan with it, or not ?
> >     
>
> 2) yes.
>
> I'm running a somewhat out of data sid which is probably pretty close
> to lenny at this point. It has worked just find with xsane in sid
> since at least the sarge days
>
> Can you provide more details about how sane *doesn't* find the
> scanner?
>
> what output do you get from :
>
> sane-find-scanner -v
>
> scanimage -L
>
> you may want to run sane-find-scanner as root...
>   
Finally could sit behind the computer again.  Indeed root could see the 
scanner, and the user had to be added to the group "scanner", restart 
X/gnome, and it worked.

Thanks,
Eric