Re: [sane-devel] Ubuntu 16.04.1 and Canoscan Lide 220

[Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>]

On Saturday 15 October 2016 04:24:53 csola48 wrote:

> What should I do?
> Scanner is out of order...
>
> $ sane-find-scanner
> found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x190f [CanoScan])
> at libusb:003:002 could not open USB device 0x1d6b/0x0002 at 003:001:
> Access denied (insufficient permissions)
>   # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be
> supported by SANE.

Ahh, udev strikes again, or is at the head of the list of culprits.

You'll likely need to add yourself to the scanner: line in the /etc/group 
file.  Mine is an 11x17 Brother, out thru a switch on a piece of cat5 
and I had to do that here.

> ===
> $ scanimage -L
> No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something
> different, check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and
> detected by the sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read
> the documentation which came with this software (README, FAQ,
> manpages).
>
> Ubuntu 16.04.1 i386 desktop
> sane-utils 1.0.26-git20160712-xenial0
> sane 1.0.14-11 <= Is this necessary?

Yes, it probably indicates the patch level of *buntu applied patches.
>

> Please help me!
> Thx
> csola48


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