Scanner does not work as user

Sandy Pond sandy_pond at myrealbox.com
Mon Apr 19 13:15:35 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 09:04 -0400, Sandy Pond wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 07:45 +0200, Roland Wolters wrote:
> 
> > Once upon a time Sandy Pond wrote:
> > > chmod 777 $(sane-find-scanner | \
> > >             grep '^found USB scanner' | \
> > >             sed -e 's?^.*libusb:?/proc/bus/usb/?' -e 's?:?/?')
> > 
> > Ok, now scnaimage finds it, thank you very much.
> > But xsane now gives me a I/O device error:
> > /Failed to open device libusb:003:002
> > \Error during I/O device.
> > 
> >   :-(
> > 
> 
> I don't have a mustek but I think you need to correct the config file
> in /etc/sane.d/mustek*
> 
> I would guess adding a line like:
> 
> usb libusb:003:002
> 
> To the proper file ... but maybe it's not supported.
> 
> Does xsane work as root?  If so then might be selinux.  Try xsane after
> running:
> 
> setenforce 0
> 
> :)

Just checked ... xsane is badly broken with selinux enforcing ... turn
it off to use xsane.







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