Re: scanner permissions
On Sat, March 11, 2006 21:27, Freddy Freeloader said:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a problem that just started with my scanner permissions. I can't
> access it by any means unless I am root. I am running a mix of Sarge
> and Sid using the 2.6.15-k7 kernel.
>
> Running sane-find-scanner or scanimage -L as root correctly identifies
> my scanner, an HP 6200C. Running the same commands as a regular user
> does not find scanner. I am a member of both the scanner and saned
> groups. This has been working correctly for quite some time as I built
> this system more than a year ago and have been using the scanner up to
> now. It has been a couple of months since I have used the scanner and
> there have been a lot of updates since then so I can't tell you what all
> has changed on my system since I last used it.
>
> Some other irregularities that show up are that occasionally running
> scanimage -L as root won't find the scanner either and I have also had
> it report a segmentation fault. When that happened I made sure all my
> usb utilities and libsane were all from Sid and it hasn't occured since.
>
> If I try to run scanimage as root from the bash prompt here are the
> results I get.
>
> Job:/home/ffreeloader# scanimage -d hp:libusb:002:003 --format tiff >>
> image.tif
> scanimage: sane_read: Error during device I/O
>
> The scanner will attempt to start--goes into it's warmup cycle--but
> after a few aborted attempts at starting a scan it will quit. The error
> message is given before all scanner activity stops.
>
>
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Check permission under /proc/bus/usb/00*/*
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