[gentoo-user] scanner not working for user

[gentoo-user] scanner not working for user

[Paul Stear]

Hi all,
I have just tried to use my scanner for the first time in months and it is not 
recognized.  However, if I run xscanimage as root it all works well.
I have read the man pages and my setup seems to be correct scanimage -L find 
the scanner  as root but not as a user.
My conclusion is that I have a permmissions problem, but I can't find out 
where or how to change them.
Can anybody help please?
I have device epson:libusb:003:005
vendor=0x04b8 product=0x0808

Paul
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Re: [gentoo-user] scanner not working for user

[Gian Domeni Calgeer]

Hi

Normally, you have to be in the scanner group. You should try gpasswd -a 
<user> scanner and then logout and login.

Gian

Am Samstag, 8. Juli 2006 13:16 schrieb Paul Stear:
> Hi all,
> I have just tried to use my scanner for the first time in months and it is
> not recognized.  However, if I run xscanimage as root it all works well. I
> have read the man pages and my setup seems to be correct scanimage -L find
> the scanner  as root but not as a user.
> My conclusion is that I have a permmissions problem, but I can't find out
> where or how to change them.
> Can anybody help please?
> I have device epson:libusb:003:005
> vendor=0x04b8 product=0x0808
>
> Paul
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Re: [gentoo-user] scanner not working for user

[Paul Stear]

On Saturday 08 July 2006 14:45, Gian Domeni Calgeer wrote:
> Hi
>
> Normally, you have to be in the scanner group. You should try gpasswd -a
> <user> scanner and then logout and login.
>
> Gian
>
> Am Samstag, 8. Juli 2006 13:16 schrieb Paul Stear:
> > Hi all,
> > I have just tried to use my scanner for the first time in months and it
> > is not recognized.  However, if I run xscanimage as root it all works
> > well. I have read the man pages and my setup seems to be correct
> > scanimage -L find the scanner  as root but not as a user.
> > My conclusion is that I have a permmissions problem, but I can't find out
> > where or how to change them.
> > Can anybody help please?
> > I have device epson:libusb:003:005
> > vendor=0x04b8 product=0x0808

the user is in group scanner, any other ideas?
Paul
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Re: [gentoo-user] scanner not working for user

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sat, 8 Jul 2006 14:16:03 +0100, Paul Stear wrote:

> My conclusion is that I have a permmissions problem, but I can't find
> out where or how to change them.
> Can anybody help please?
> I have device epson:libusb:003:005
> vendor=0x04b8 product=0x0808

This happened to me recently too. The permissions in /proc/bus/usb were
correct, but /dev/bus/usb nodes were root-only. I fixed this with a udev
rule 

SYSFS{product}=="CanoScan", SYSFS{manufacturer}=="Canon", GROUP:="scanner", MODE:="0660"

You'll need to use udevinfo to get the correct setting for your device.


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Re: [gentoo-user] scanner not working for user

[Paul Stear]

On Saturday 08 July 2006 16:45, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> SYSFS{product}=="CanoScan", SYSFS{manufacturer}=="Canon", GROUP:="scanner",
> MODE:="0660"
Neil,
Thanks that's just what I'm looking for.
SYSFS{product}=="0x0808", SYSFS{manufacturer}=="0x04b8", GROUP:="scanner", 
MODE:="0660"

But where do I put this?
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Re: [gentoo-user] scanner not working for user

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sat, 8 Jul 2006 17:29:15 +0100, Paul Stear wrote:

> Thanks that's just what I'm looking for.
> SYSFS{product}=="0x0808", SYSFS{manufacturer}=="0x04b8",
> GROUP:="scanner", MODE:="0660"
> 
> But where do I put this?

/etc/udev/rules.d/10-udev.rules


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Re: [gentoo-user] scanner not working for user

[Paul Stear]

On Saturday 08 July 2006 20:05, Neil Bothwick wrote:

> > But where do I put this?
Hi,
Neil advised that in  /etc/udev/rules.d/10-udev.rules I enter the following:-
SYSFS{product}=="USB MFP", SYSFS{manufacturer}=="EPSON", GROUP:="scanner", 
MODE:="0660"
This worked well and I was able to scan.
However, I have just discovered that the printing side of my epson cx5400 
scanner/printer is not working.
If I remove the line from the rules file that the printer works fine, but of 
course the scanner is now not working.

Any other ideas on how to ensure that both functions work correctly?

Thanks in advance
Paul
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