only scan as root

[MR ZenWiz]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Linda <haniganwork at earthlink.net> wrote:
> I found some instructions to get a Canon LiDE 200 scanner working on Lucid.  http://www.uluga.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1161276&page=2
> It has sorted of worked. I have everything installed and if I run xsane or simple-scan as root it will run, but as a user it fails to detect a scanner. The solutions I have found online say to add users to saned and scanner groups. I don't have a scanner group. I also found a solution that suggested I also tried to change permissions
> with chmod a+w /dev/bus/usb/002/007 since lsusb shows that is the bus and device for the scanner but no luck there either. Any ideas on how I can get the scanner to work without running it as root?
>

I had a similar problem on CentOS a while back that was (temporarily)
solve by putting the user into the lp group, which owns the scanner.
I'd say run an 'ls -l' on your /dev/<scanner-id> file and see which
group owns it, then add that group to your user(s) who need to use the
scanner.

I'd strongly urge you not to use Canon printers or scanners with Linux
- as much as I like them, they are poorly supported and don't work
properly with most of the drivers, if you can even find them, and
that, unfortunately, includes (x)sane.