Re: [gentoo-amd64] USB scanners and udev

[Peter Humphrey <prh@gotadsl.co.uk>]

On Wednesday 07 March 2007 10:42:43 Thierry de Coulon wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 March 2007 10:35, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > In answer to Barry, I have this:
> >
> > $ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/92-scanner.rules
> > BUS=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="0x4b8", SYSFS{idProduct}=="0x106",
> > GROUP="scanner", MODE="660"
>
> The strange thing is that I don't have any scanner.rules in my
> /etc/udev/, neither on Gentoo /with the Epson 1260) nor on Mepis (Ubuntu
> based) that uses the 640u at the moment.

I only created that file during this investigation, following a suggestion 
by Barry.

> Maybe I'm not using udev for the scanner? I do have a libsane.rules in
> Mepis, in Gentoo I only have udev-early, udev, fuse and vmware rules

Hmm. Perhaps I should try another distribution to see how that goes. 
Meanwhile:

$ ls /etc/udev/rules.d
05-udev-early.rules          60-vmware.rules                
75-persistent-net-generator.rules  99-libsane.rules
50-udev.rules                70-persistent-cd.rules         92-scanner.rules
60-persistent-input.rules    70-persistent-net.rules        95-net.rules
60-persistent-storage.rules  75-cd-aliases-generator.rules  
99-libgphoto2.rules

Rather more than your system, it seems!

Barry, maybe I should look for a more amenable scanner? This one was only a 
basic one for my mother a few years ago (she's now 85 and on her second 
computer!). I've tried finding suggestions as to a suitable device, but not 
got anywhere yet. I'll try the local LUG next, I think.

-- 
Rgds
Peter Humphrey
Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93
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