F9 Beta Scanner working only for root

Kevin DeKorte kdekorte at gmail.com
Thu Mar 27 15:40:20 UTC 2008


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Gerry Tool wrote:
| 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
| -------------------------
| [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
|


Gerry,

I just got this bug fixed with Nils

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438827

The latest sane-backend rpms from koji fix this problem.

Kevin

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