[Techtalk] help meee epson scanner Dapper die hotplug die

[Mary Gardiner]

On Tue, Jun 06, 2006, Carla Schroder wrote:
> I am struggling with getting the scanner on my Epson Stylus CX4800 to work for 
> an unprivileged user. It scans as root, but no matter what I do it won't work 
> for any other user. The scanner is not detected. Here is what I have done:
> 
> - sane-find-scanner sees the scanner
> - scanimage -L only sees it as root
> - edited /etc/sane.d/epson.conf appropriately, and I am very unhappy that the 
> upgrade stomped most of my configs
> - used to be changing the /proc permissions, like chmod 
> a+rw /proc/bus/usb/[scanner]/[id] would let ordinary users run scans. But 
> that does not work anymore.

This 'answer' has the status of a complete guess based on getting my USB
scanner to work under Debian and later Ubuntu (but not yet Dapper, hence
the 'guess' part)... but. Are the users in question in the 'scanner' group?

-Mary