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. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Check permission under /proc/bus/usb/00*/* -- /ernst-magne If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
