running xsane only possible as root

[David]

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Nathaniel McCallum wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 15:27 +1000, David wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Nathaniel McCallum wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 13:29 -0700, Nathan Howell wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2004-27-09 at 17:30 +0200, Hubertus Hiden wrote:
> > > > > Hello
> > > > >
> > > > > I have a CanoScan N640p attached to the parallel port. Xsane works but I
> > > > > have to start it as root. If I start it as a normal user xsane can't
> > > > > detect the scanner. What I did was to a chmod 666 /dev/lp0 but without
> > > > > any effect.
> > > > > Could anybody please give me hint on where to look ?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Info in this bug (https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1485 )
> > > > might be applicable.
> > >
> > > just add your user to the scanner group, should work fine.
> > >
> > > Nathaniel
> >
> >
> > I just added my username to scanner, but Agfa Snapscan 1212 (USB) isn't
> > found. Libraries exist for this scanner, so I would have thought it should
> > detect. Is there something I should be doing?
>
> Can you find the scanner when you do: "sudo scanimage -L"?


This is  answered in another thread.. but just for the archives, I'll put
it here too :-)

I had added my username, but failed to logout/back in, so the system
wasn't recognising me as part of group scanner. After I did so, it all
worked. I can't understand why usernames aren't added to that group by
default..

thanks..

David.