Scanner Frustration

[Gerry Tool]

Tim Waugh wrote:
> On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 07:44:55AM -0400, Sandy Pond wrote:
> 
> 
>>A new version of sane just came out with "Added scripts for USB
>>hotplugging".  Hopefully there's time to get it in.
>>
>>http://www.sane-project.org/
> 
> 
> There isn't, but please try the 1.0.13-6 package here:
> 
> ftp://people.redhat.com/twaugh/tmp/sane-backends/
> 
> The USB hotplug data is included, as well as a script.  This script
> operates in exactly the same way as the one for USB cameras --
> i.e. the current console user gets ownership of the device *when it is
> plugged in*.
> 
> Better suggestions welcome.  It would be nice if the pam_console stuff
> interacted more nicely with hotplug scripts that depend on 'current
> console user', but I don't see a nice way of doing that.
> 
> Tim.
> */
> 
I installed your new version, looked at /etc/sane.d/epson.conf and found 
it was for a different scanner than my Epson Perfection 1240U, so 
changed the last two lines to reflect my scanner as listed in 
/etc/hotplug/usb/libsane.usermap.

The permissions on /proc/bus/usb/003/002 after reboot are still set at 
644, so I need as root to chmod a+w /proc/bus/usb/003/002 to get the 
scanner to work.  Is it possible that something I set up in my multiple 
attempts to get the scanner working is interfering?

I just updated to all the available development updates this morning 
which included a new kernel and new hotplug packages.  I have rebooted 
to the new kernel.

Gerry Tool