Scanner does not work as user
Roland Wolters
wolters.liste at gmx.net
Mon Apr 19 05:40:15 UTC 2004
Once upon a time Paul Watkins wrote:
> > My scanner, Mustek 1200 CU (USB), is not recognized as user:
> > [liquidat at gries8-096177 user]$ scanimage -L
> > device `v4l:/dev/video0' is a Noname BT878 video (Hauppauge (bt878))
> > virtual device
> >
> > But as root it gives me:
> > [root at gries8-096177 root]# scanimage -L
> > device `v4l:/dev/video0' is a Noname BT878 video (Hauppauge (bt878))
> > virtual device
> > device `mustek_usb:libusb:003:002' is a Mustek 1200 CU flatbed scanner
> >
> > But sane-find-scanner as user reports the scanner:
> > [liquidat at gries8-096177 liquidat]$ sane-find-scanner
> >
> > # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make
> > sure that
> > # you have loaded a SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.
> >
> > found USB scanner (vendor=0x055f, product=0x0001, chip=MA-1017?) at
> > libusb:003:002
> >
> > So where could be the problem? Someone suggested to make this:
> > $ chgrp scanner /dev/usb/scanner0
> > $ chmod 660 /dev/usb/scanner0
> > But scanimage -L as user still shows only my tv card.
>
> I just had to change the permissions on my SCSI device for the scanner
> I'm using, /dev/sg0, to allow the user to have permissions. It works
> fine now.
>
Does not work for me, scanimage stil finds only my tv card....
Roland
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