On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 13:15 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > I'm attempting to get my Canon LiDE 20 scanner working. So far it works, > kind of. I can find it with lsusb. When I run xsane as a normal user it > cannot find the device. However when I run xsane as root it does find it. > xsane's help suggests this is because of a permissions problem on the device > entry itself. The problem is I have no clue what device entry the scanner is > coming in as? The most likely candidates I've found from /etc/sane.d/* don't > work when I chown them to my normal user account. Those being /dev/scanner > and /dev/sg0. Any ideas how I can get from the USB listing to the proper > device entry in /dev? What kernel are you running? Is hotplug installed? 1. Unplug the scanner's USB cable from the PC. 2. In a new, large xterm window: sudo tail -f -n40 /var/log/syslog 3. Plug in the scanner's USB cable. 4. Watch what gets dumped into /var/log/syslog. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity." Grover Cleveland
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