only scan as root

[Linda]

-----Original Message-----
>From: Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com>
>Sent: Jan 31, 2011 3:21 PM
>To: Linda <haniganwork at earthlink.net>, "Ubuntu user technical support, not for
>	general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>Subject: Re: only scan as root
>
>Den 2011-01-31 21:54:23 skrev Linda <haniganwork at earthlink.net>:
>
>> 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?
>>           Thanks
>>           Linda
>>
>
>I don't know, but maybe this question should rather be asked to the sane  
>developer list?
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>Johnny Rosenberg

Thank you. The sane-devel list gave me a working solution here is the link for anyone else with the same problem.


http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2011-February/028153.html