2011/11/19 Khosrow Hassani <khosrok...@yahoo.com> > Hi, > I just installed Debian 6.0.3 (testing) on my Thinkpad x60 laptop. I also > have a Canon Lide 100 scanner which was not supported by sane backends in > Debian before, and I had to install the newest libraries from source. this > time, however, I realized that it is supported. sane-find-scanner finds two > usb scanners (don't know why 2! I only attache one), one of which is > correctly recognized as Canon vendor=0x04a9 and product=0x1904. > The problem is that when I run scanimage -L from console before starting > X, everything is OK. even the scanimage -d test -T and scanimage -d genesys > -T commands are all passed successfully. but, when I start X and run the > same commands inside an xterm, I get the error that libusb:001:002 access > has been denied or something like that! > I don't really understand why running the same command from console and > xterm are different!! >
It's a group permission behavior, put your X user in /etc/group, scanner -- Registered Linux User #249354 "Ad astra per aspera"
