Re: sane 1.0, UMAX 610S and FreeBSD 3.1

Allan Strand (stranda@cofc.edu)
02 Apr 1999 09:04:49 -0500

Oliver Rauch <oliver.rauch@Wolfsburg.DE> writes:
> Allan Strand wrote:
>
> > 1) I've just installed sane 1.00 on a freebsd 3.1 box. The compile went
> > fine. I have a UMAX 610S scanner on an adaptec 2940. The scanner
> > probes fine during bootup (appears as device pass3). I set the
> > permissions on /dev/pass3 to 777. Executing scanimage -L as root
> > reveals three devices, the UMAX scanner and two pnm devices.
> > Executing the same command as a normal user only reports the two pnm
> > devices. Apparently I have a permission problem, but I;m not sure
> > where.
>
> is /dev/pass3 a symlink?do ls -l /dev/pass3
>

pass3 is the actual device. If I symlink /dev/pass3 to /dev/scanner,
and update the umax.conf file then I can't even get root to see the
scanner.

> >
>
> There was a fix for this on the list some weeks ago,I hope someone else still knows how
> to fix this, I don`t remember!
>

Thanks for the tip.

A.

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