Hi Brendan
You need to set the permission on the device which you scanner is using.
do a scanimage -L as root and the end of the scanner list will have
something like /dev/hp<whatever>. This device need to be set to chmod a+wrx
/dev/<deviceName>
Regards
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brendan Boyle" <support@shadowtech.com.au>
To: <sane-devel@mostang.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 11:12 AM
Subject: Apologies for such a newbie question
> I'm sorry to put such a simple question on the list but I've had no joy
after
> reading the excellent FAQ at http://www.xs4all.nl/~ljm/SANE-faq.html or
the man
> pages.
>
> I have installed sane and can happily access my scanner when logged in as
root
> but not when logged in as any other user. scanimage -L works fine as root
but
> returns nothing as any other user. Doing a scanimage as a normal user
returns
> "no SANE devices found" but works as root. xscanimage returns an error
message
> with "no devices available" but also works as root. I'm assuming a
permissions
> problem but I can't seem to spot where it may be.
>
> My scanner is a HP C5110A and the card is an Adaptec 2940 that also runs a
> CDBurner successfully. I'm running RedHat 6.2 with a kernel I configured
> myself. SCSI support is correctly setup in the kernel as far as I know.
I'm
> using sane 1.0.3.
>
> I can't find any information anywhere else that may help so I have had to
resort
> to this list. If anyone can point me in the direction of some help it
would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Brendan Boyle
> Shadowtech
>
>
> --
> Source code, list archive, and docs: http://www.mostang.com/sane/
> To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe sane-devel | mail majordomo@mostang.com
-- Source code, list archive, and docs: http://www.mostang.com/sane/ To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe sane-devel | mail majordomo@mostang.com
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Wed Sep 06 2000 - 18:58:41 PDT