Re: scanner permissions

["Ernst-Magne Vindal" <ernst@vindal.com>]

On Sun, March 12, 2006 15:19, Freddy Freeloader said:
> I tried that.  I set the group to scanner and set permissions to 770.
> It didn't change anything.
>
> Ernst-Magne Vindal wrote:
>
>>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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First of all, "topposting"......

Then, I'm not able to scan with permission set to 770, but 646 works fine
her.
Trying to set permission to 770, run as user, gives error: No scanner found.

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