scanner only as root

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Mittwoch, den 24.11.2004, 22:48 +0100 schrieb Soren Hauberg:
> Hi
> I just managed to get my old parport scanner to work with sane. The 
> problem is that it only works as root, so I have to give a password and 
> accept a warning from xsane before I can scan.
> Is there a way to get around this?
> 
> By the way, the scanner is a Canon FB330P
the sane package is slightly different from the xsane package and they
dont work well together in ubuntu, xsane should work out of the box fi
there is no other sane stuff installed.

1. make sure you only got the xsane packages from main (you can verify
this pretty good in synaptic by a search for sane and deinstalling
everything that has no logo in front)
2. your scanner is a parallelport device, a ls -l /dev/lp0 shows you it
belongs to the group "lp"
3. to get acces now simply add the user to the group:
sudo adduser $USER lp

ciao
	oli

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