only scan as root

[Johnny Rosenberg]

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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