Re: Epson Perfection 1240U USB scanner device not found

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:23:57 -1000, Joel Roth wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 02:37:15PM +0000, Camale??n wrote:
>> On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 19:28:55 -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
>> > Okay, we're back in "routine administration" territory.
>> > 
>> > adding myself to group 'scanner'
>> > 
>> > /etc/group:scanner:x:111:hplip,saned,jroth
>> > /etc/gshadow:scanner:!::hplip,saned,jroth
>> > 
>> > and then 'newgrp scanner' leads to a correct result for scanimage
>> > --list-devices
>> > 
>> > Will that be the new status quo when I reboot, or do I have to do
>> > something to make it permanent?
>> 
>> (...)
>> 
>> If you manually added the "scanner" group and also (manually) added
>> yourself to that group this has to be consistent between reboots, of
>> course. But I wonder why is that the "scanner" group was not present in
>> your system by default :-?
> 
> I didn't express myself clearly, I added myself to the scanner group, I
> didn't add the group.

Ah, then the scanner group was already present (that's correct) but your 
user should have been added to it automatically (I guess), at least 
that's how it is on my system (wheezy) and I have no TWAIN device 
attached to the netbook (no scanner, multi-function device, dsc camera... 
nothing).

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón