F9 Beta Scanner working only for root

[Gerry Tool]

My Epson Perfection 4490 Photo scanner is once again only working as
root.  It works fine as a normal usr in F8 and I think it did in F9
Alpha.

Root can access the scanner using either iscan or xsane.  My normal
user account can not with either.

This scanner uses the epkowa backend provided by the iscan package
from Epson.  I cannot detect any differences between my F8 and my F9
Beta setups.

Scanner on Fedora 8
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[root at f8 gerry]# sane-find-scanner

  # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the
  # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your
  # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer.

  # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that
  # you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.

found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x0119 [EPSON
Scanner]) at lib      usb:001:003
  # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by
  # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.

[root at f8 gerry]# ls -l /proc/bus/usb/001
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 43 2008-03-27 04:02 001
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 50 2008-03-27 04:02 003
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 50 2008-03-27 04:02 004

[root at f8 gerry]# diff /etc/sane.d/epkowa.conf /mnt/f9beta/etc/sane.d/epkowa.conf
[root at f8 gerry]# diff /etc/sane.d/epson.conf /mnt/f9beta/etc/sane.d/epson.conf

[root at f8 gerry]# scanimage -L
device `epkowa:libusb:001:003' is a Epson Perfection 4490 flatbed scanner

Scanner on F9 Beta
------------------------
[root at F9Beta ~]# sane-find-scanner

  # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the
  # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your
  # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer.

  # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that
  # you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.

found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x0119 [EPSON
Scanner]) at libusb:001:003

[root at F9Beta ~]# ls -l /proc/bus/usb/001
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 43 2008-03-27 04:37 001
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 50 2008-03-27 04:37 003
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 50 2008-03-27 04:37 004

[root at F9Beta ~]# scanimage -L
device `epkowa:libusb:001:003' is a Epson Perfection 4490 flatbed scanner

Any suggestions will be much appreciated.

Thanks.

Gerry