[Techtalk] help meee epson scanner Dapper die hotplug die

[Carla Schroder]

On Tuesday 06 June 2006 10:12 pm, Mary Gardiner wrote:
> 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?
> 

Good question, and yes, they are. And were. Sigh. :)

Carla 

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