XSane Problems

[Nathaniel McCallum]

On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 10:10 -0500, Daniel B wrote:
> I've got a Canon LiDE 20 scanner hooked up to my Athlon XP 1800 Ubuntu 
> box.
> 
> Whenever I launch XSane as myself I get a no scanners found error. When 
> I launch the program from the commandline using sudo, XSane warns me 
> about running the program under root but it does run and the program 
> works fine. It finds the scanner and the scanner does its job.
> 
> Is there something I'm missing? I don't really want to run it as root.

You are probably not in the scanner group.  This has changed in new
installs (from daily CDs).  Add yourself to the scanner group, logout
and log back in.

nathaniel