XSane Problems

[Daniel B]

On 06 Oct 2004, at 11:03 AM, Nathaniel McCallum wrote:

> 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.

Thanks. I'll give it a try when I get home tonight.

-- Daniel