On 2020-04-09 18:16, Samuel Sieb wrote:
It seems that udev is not recognizing it or you need to add yourself to a different group.
. i don't know what group?
You could run xsane as root as a workaround.
. Did that earlier, it warned me not to run as root and the did not let me save to Desktop, perhaps I should have tried saving to a root directory ... The urgency has passed, another scanner was coaxed into working with an Apple something. Now I just want to fix it since it has always worked from new, put aside for a year while a new floor was installed, until today when we needed it.
Or try doing "chmod a+w /dev/bus/001/006" (replace with the correct numbers if you've replugged or rebooted since your post).
. After some trial and error I wound up doing chmod 775 /dev/bus/usb but stilt not detected.
It used to be we had the GUI for users and groups and I would have looked there for a likely fix, that will be missed along with Alacarte which I could use to replace some of the cryptic names in the menu.
There's no good reason for the dash, just I've always done that, another eccentric user.