Canoscan N640P in FC6

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Thu Nov 8 04:25:52 UTC 2007


Simon Slater wrote:
> FWIW I had a Canoscan FB320P.  I would have to change permissions
> on /dev/lp0 for each session I used it.  I used scanimage -L as root and
> then as user to check if it was found.  That model had too many I/O
> errors which caused it to stop mid scan requiring a power off/on cycle.
> Replaced it with a USB scanner.  Much less hassles.
> 
You can have console.perms change the permissions for you. You can
add a console.perms rule file to manage lp0 directly, or have udev
create a scanner symlink to lp0, and the scanner rules of
console.perms will take care of it for you.

Mikkel
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