Mike O'Connor wrote:
> Hi Brendan
>
> You need to set the permission on the device which you scanner is using.
>
> do a scanimage -L as root and the end of the scanner list will have
> something like /dev/hp<whatever>. This device need to be set to chmod a+wrx
> /dev/<deviceName>
>
> Regards
> Mike
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brendan Boyle" <support@shadowtech.com.au>
> To: <sane-devel@mostang.com>
> Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 11:12 AM
> Subject: Apologies for such a newbie question
>
> > I'm sorry to put such a simple question on the list but I've had no joy
> after
> > reading the excellent FAQ at http://www.xs4all.nl/~ljm/SANE-faq.html or
> the man
> > pages.
> >
> > I have installed sane and can happily access my scanner when logged in as
> root
> > but not when logged in as any other user. scanimage -L works fine as root
> but
> > returns nothing as any other user. Doing a scanimage as a normal user
> returns
> > "no SANE devices found" but works as root. xscanimage returns an error
> message
> > with "no devices available" but also works as root. I'm assuming a
> permissions
> > problem but I can't seem to spot where it may be.
> >
> > My scanner is a HP C5110A and the card is an Adaptec 2940 that also runs a
> > CDBurner successfully. I'm running RedHat 6.2 with a kernel I configured
> > myself. SCSI support is correctly setup in the kernel as far as I know.
> I'm
> > using sane 1.0.3.
> >
> > I can't find any information anywhere else that may help so I have had to
> resort
> > to this list. If anyone can point me in the direction of some help it
> would be
> > greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> > Brendan Boyle
> > Shadowtech
> >
> >
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Thank you very much Mike, that worked a treat.
Brendan Boyle
Shadowtech
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