SANE scanner and root user
Hi there
I have an old Epson GT-5000 scanner which is not supported by my Windows
system (Win 2k pro), but which is still supported by SANE, and so I
installed, and it works fine. However, I can only use the scanner when
logged in as root. I know that this is a known issue, and is connected
with the driver accessing the parallel port directly. I also know that
there are ways to allow any user to access it. What I can't find, is any
debian specific workaround (All the workarounds I've found are generic,
and tend to not transalate easily to a debian installation).
Now this isn't necessarily a huge problem ATM - I'm on a single user
system and the only network I connect to is the Internet via ppp, but I
have my system configured to boot me straight into a user kde system,
and not as root.
Can someone give me a step by step guide to the fix to allow access from
the user account I have set up.
TIA
Steve
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