Re: Scanner problem

[Demond James <maestronn wowway com>]

Neil B. Cohen wrote:

> I recently purchased an HP 2175xi printer/scanner/copier. Hooked it up
> to my Fedora 2 test3 system and it worked fine. Got it to print and scan
> without any problems.
>
> I just wiped the machine and installed the FC2 release. The printer
> works, but Xsane tells me there are no scanners. The machine is attached
> to the USB port, and scanimage -L (run as root) tells me that there is
> (probably) a scanner on the USB port - but it won't actually scan
> anything.
>
> Any suggestions on what I need to do to get the scanner working would be
> appreciated. The printer still seems to be working...
>
> Much obliged,
>
> nbc
>
>
>
>  

It's a permission issue, read the sane-usb man page for the fix.  It 
work fine if you turn the printer on while you are logged in (the 
hotplug script included with sane takes care of the permissions) but if 
the printer was on before you booted  then permissions are not set 
correctly.