scanning with SANE as non-root?

[Hubertus Hiden]

Lutzer <M.Lutzer <at> gmx.de> writes:

> 
> I needed to upgrade SANE packages from
> http://people.debian.org/~aurel32/SANE
> Now xsane does recognize my USB scanner when I execute xsane as root.
> When I start xsane as user it does not recognize the scanner. The user
> is member of the "scanner" group. What could be wrong?
> 
> 

This sounds like a problem Ubuntu 4.10 had. 
I don't know the exact solution but afair the solution was to change permissions
to some device(s). Take a look at the list archives.

Hope it helps
Hubertus