Re: Determining a device
On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 13:15:45 -0800, Steve Lamb <grey@dmiyu.org> 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?
Have you added your user to the, IIRC, "scanner" group? I should check
if what i suggested is the correct group, you should find the details
in the sane documentation.
Andrea
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