Re: write access to /proc/bus/usb
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 12:22:16 +0200, Andrea Vettorello
<andrea.vettorello@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 18:13:06 +0800, Chris Purves <purves@ualberta.net> wrote:
> > I've set up an usb scanner recently, but I am having permissions problems.
> > The scanner generally resides in /proc/bus/usb/003 but only root has
> > read/write permissions. What I have been doing is manually changing the
> > permissions access every time I want to run the scanner. (using xsane)
> >
> > Does anyone have a permanent solution?
> >
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> IIRC you need to remove your old ~/.xsane dir or config file... (i
> could not check right now cause i'm not near the Sid box attached to
> the scanner)
>
Sorry, i recalled wrong, the thing about the ~/.xsane config was
related to some segfaults of xsane. The read/write permission should
be changed by your hotplug system, do you have added your user to the
"scanner" group?
Andrea
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