Help needed getting Epson 2400 Perfection scanner working
Listman
fedora at linsolutions.com
Sat Aug 28 15:21:23 UTC 2004
On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 06:23, Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 15:43:49 +0700
> Philippe <phd2 at fcomfrench.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 15:29, Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
> > > On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 15:15:30 +0700
> > > Philippe <phd2 at fcomfrench.com> wrote:
> > > > Hi Steven,
> > > >
> > > > Try this as root :
> > > > > sane-find-scanner says the following:
> > > > > found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x011b [EPSON
> > > > > Scanner]) at libusb:001:006
> > > >
> > > > chmod 0666 /proc/bus/usb/001/006
> > > >
> > > > (coming from libusb:001:006)
>
> Hello, Philippe :)
> There is only one thing worse than the issues that I have had with this
> scanner..... That is the fact that I am not completely certain what I
> did to fix it. But I know that it now works :) I did read the README
> in the hotplug/tools directory and followed the directions. I tried
> switching to runlevel 1 and then back to runlevel 5, but it still
> wouldn't work. I rebooted :(, but now all is well :) Well, almost -
> The only graphical program that I can scan with is Kooka. I can't scan
> from xscanimage, The GIMP, or OpenOffice.org. But, I will start a new
> thread about that.
>
> Thanks to everyone who even made an attempt to help me :)
> Steven P. Ulrick
>
99.999999% likely that the permissions fixed it, I have never had to do
anything else to get any scanner working since Redhat 7.2.
An initscript to do a
chmod 0666 /proc/bus/usb/0*
Ted
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