XSane Problems

[Bill Stoye]

On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 12:03 -0400, 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.
Where do I find or which file do I need to change the scanner group for?
I have the same problem.
Bill

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