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On Saturday 29 November 2003 00:07, Bryan Anderson wrote:
Yes, it's a parallel port scanner. You don't have to run
What did you do to make xsane find your scanner when logged in as a normal user?
Its usually a matter of finding the device 'file' in /dev, and changing its permissions or your permissions.
[root@fastcat dev]# ll /dev/parport* crw-rw---- 1 root lp 99, 0 Sep 15 14:40 /dev/parport0 crw-rw---- 1 root lp 99, 1 Sep 15 14:40 /dev/parport1 crw-rw---- 1 root lp 99, 2 Sep 15 14:40 /dev/parport2 crw-rw---- 1 root lp 99, 3 Sep 15 14:40 /dev/parport3 crw-rw---- 1 root lp 99, 4 Sep 15 14:40 /dev/parport4 crw-rw---- 1 root lp 99, 5 Sep 15 14:40 /dev/parport5 crw-rw---- 1 root lp 99, 6 Sep 15 14:40 /dev/parport6 crw-rw---- 1 root lp 99, 7 Sep 15 14:40 /dev/parport7
[root@fastcat dev]# ll /dev/lp* crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 0 Sep 15 14:40 /dev/lp0 crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 1 Sep 15 14:40 /dev/lp1 crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 2 Sep 15 14:40 /dev/lp2 crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 3 Sep 15 14:40 /dev/lp3
First thing I would try is adding my user to the lp group. IIRC you may need to logout and log back in (not a reboot tho) to get the changed groupfulness available in whatever apps you are running the other apps from.
- -Andy