usb scanner setup

[Tim Waugh]

On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 08:27:21AM -0500, Sandy Pond wrote:

> I needed to add;
> 
> usb 0x04b8 0x0110
> 
> to /etc/sane.d/epson.conf to be able to talk to my Epson 1650 scanner
> and;

Does 'usb /dev/usb/scanner0' work instead?

> chmod 777 $(sane-find-scanner | \
>             grep '^found USB scanner' | \
>             sed -e 's?^.*libusb:?/proc/bus/usb/?' -e 's?:?/?')

For /dev/usb/scanner0 this step shouldn't be needed.

> to /etc/rc.d/rc.local so that normal users could use it.  Is there a
> bug here or is this the normal configuration procedure (I'm glad ESR
> didn't try to setup a usb scanner)?

Unfortunately this stuff isn't set up automatically, and there is an
open bug for it to be:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=80613

If anyone can provide clues about how this should/could be done, that
bug report would be the place to put them!

Thanks,
Tim.
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