On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 07:12:19AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > After trying a number of other things, unsuccessfully, including > compiling save from sources so that I could compile a different > backend from source which is supposed to work with my scanner. I > finally got the scanner to function if I run xscanimage AS ROOT! I > don't want to have to do that. I then uninstalled all of that mess > and reinstalled sane from the Debian packages. I then remembered > about /dev/.static/dev and added the scanner node there. I think that > was when things started to work. Apparently adding the node in /dev > did not work, but /dev/.static/dev did. I then changed its ownership > to root:scanner and its permissions to 664, but I still can't run as > myself, only as root. Do I need to rebout for those changes to take > effect? Is there some way to set it up with the ownerchip and > permissions that I want directly from mknod? Is there a better way to > get this working properly?
You need something like this in /etc/udev/rules.d/z60_libsane.rules
# Epson DX-7400 | Epson DX-7400
SYSFS{idVendor}=="04b8", SYSFS{idProduct}=="0838", MODE="0664",
GROUP="scanner", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes"
and make sure you are in the 'scanner' group. (I copied that line from
my sid machine).
Regards,
Andrei
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