Re: [gentoo-user] Whose bug is it? [was: hal greps my USB printer - help !]

[Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>]

On 30 Oct, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> After a long search on the net I've found out
> that the permissions of the usb device are set wrong
> (root.usb)
> It looks like an UDEV rule installed by sane-backends
> sets the user to root and the group to usb.
> With these settings CUPS won't recognize/use the printer.
> 
> I had to add the following rule to /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules
> (e.g.)
> 
> ATTR{idVendor}=="0482", ATTR{idProduct}=="0015", MODE:="0777",
>   GROUP:="lp", USER:="lp", ENV{libsane_matched}:="yes"

this must be     OWNER:="lp"
of course.

> 
> where one has to vary the idVendor and idProduct, of course.
> 
> Even for a casual Gentoo user that's neither trivial nor comfortable.
> If the printer breaks sometime one has to remember to change that rule.
> And it wasn't easy to find that advice.
> 
> Where should I report a bug to ?
> To
> net-print/cups
> or
> media-gfx/sane-backends
> or where else?
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> Helmut.
> 
> 

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Helmut Jarausch

Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany