<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/4.6.6"> </HEAD> <BODY> <TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> On Wed, 2015-01-07 at 14:48 -0800, NoOp wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> On 01/07/2015 12:50 PM, Dave Stevens wrote: > Recently a new installation of Ubuntu 12.04.5 and updates made it > necessary to redo the drivers for this printer/scanner. Plugging in > the usb connecting cable gave immediate recognition that the device > was there, even the serial number was shown in dmesg. Brother's driver > download and install did a successful test print. > > The scanner driver that was part of that install has given a situation > where I can not insert (in LO) an image from the device - just blows > up. Likewise xsane doesn't find the device. BUT if I sudo xsane then I > get a death threat from the developers and then the xsane scan works > perfectly, giving a scanned file with root permissions, which I can > change. > > So some sort of permissions issue with xsane and I don't know what > about the printer driver. When I try to print from LO or CUPS the job > apparently runs, the device's two line LCD shows "receiving data" but > nothing ever prints. > > Advice? Other places to look? <<A HREF="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sane-backends/+bug/217571">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sane-backends/+bug/217571</A>> (xsane only scans as root) ************ </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> On my 14.04.1 xsane is scanning fine with gui version. As the only user I suppose I am root. <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>