xsane and simple-scan only working as root

[Marius Gedminas]

On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 09:16:35AM +0000, Christian Jaeger wrote:
> 2013/10/29 Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt>
> 
> > Actually, we've got one of those printer/scanner/fax combo devices in
> > the office.  I plug it into my laptop, and scanning Just Works (or at
> > least used to before I upgraded to 13.10; haven't had the need to scan
> > since).
> >
> 
> The scanner was working with simple-scan (but not xsane) on the last LTS
> version of Ubuntu (12.04) the first time we ran simple-scan. Although I did
> try quite some time to get xsane working before that, and might have added
> the lp group during that.

Oh, interesting.

If you have time, you may want to try booting from a Live CD, to see if
the problem is with Ubuntu, or with the changes you've made a long time
ago in a galaxy ^W^W^W trying to make it work with xsane :)

> I wonder which package to file a bug against. Sometimes I'm kinda hoping
> that maintainers are skimming ubuntu-user etc. if they're not overly busy
> handling existing bug reports already, that would save me some work and
> perhaps them, too...

In my experience filing bugs (that mostly get ignored), there are way too
many users and too many bug reports for the few maintainers to handle.  :(

Marius Gedminas
-- 
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
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