RE: Apologies for such a newbie question

From: S.P.Sheriff (fsanta@arrakis.es)
Date: Thu Sep 07 2000 - 08:16:41 PDT

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    Hi I had the same problem. I had to set the permissions on /dev/sga so that
    I had user permissions.

    Hope that this helps, Steve.

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    > De: Brendan Boyle <support@shadowtech.com.au>
    > A: sane-devel@mostang.com
    > Asunto: Apologies for such a newbie question
    > Fecha: jueves 7 de septiembre de 2000 3:42
    >
    > 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
    >
    >
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