USB Scanner Permission Problem

Tim Waugh twaugh at redhat.com
Fri Nov 19 15:06:03 UTC 2004


On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 08:34:31AM -0600, Gerry Tool wrote:

> I rushed to do what you said, I now have
> [root at gstpc-fc3 ~]# rpm -q sane-backends
> sane-backends-1.0.15-2
> [root at gstpc-fc3 ~]# rpm -q hotplug
> hotplug-2004_04_01-10
> and my Epson 1240U scanner still will not open in Gimp until I execute
> chmod a+w /proc/bus/usb/003/002
> as root.
> 
> I rebooted just to be sure.
> 
> What am I missing?

I don't know.  It has worked for someone else.  Is there a
/dev/usb/scanner* symlink?

Tim.
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