xsane finds scanner only as root

[Jason Montleon]

I agree this is permissions, but I ran into this same thing using saned to 
set up a networked scanner.  I had to modify permissions accordingly.  Some 
devices, for whatever reason, are by default readable/writable only by root. 
I think that regardless of his configuration he will have to modify the 
permissions on the device.

Jason

>This is probably a result of your scanner device is not readable by
>other users than root.
>If you no what your scanner device is called you could change the
>permissions for the
>device so that all users can access it.
>
>Another, better, solution would be to set it up as a networked scanner
>by using saned.
>The procedure is well described in the saned man page. Follow that
>example and don't
>forget to restart your xinetd to make it work.  Also make sure that the
>line "net" in
>/etc/sane.d/dll.conf is not commented out. Add localhost to
>/etc/sane.d/net.conf
>That way your scanner device could be owned by one saned user, and the
>access to
>it could be controlled by editing the file /etc/sane.d/saned.users (see
>the saned man page).