Scan does not work on either F-16 box -

[ny6p01 at gmail.com]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 05:33:44AM -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> On 24/02/12 02:25, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > yum -y install sane-backends-drivers-scanners
> 
>         Did that, still no device found!
> 
>         However for the first time ever I ignored the warning not to run
>         as root and xsane found the Canon LIDE-110 scanner and copied as
>         expected! A permissions problem?
> 
>         That was on this computer, box6.
> 
>         Box9 showed "sane-backends-drivers-scanners already installed?"
> 
>         Box9, as root, found the HP-5370 scanner and copied a page as
>         expected.
> 
>         As a matter of interest, my installs are from the XFCE spin on a
>         flash drive. I then add the applications I want via yum mostly.
>         Don't know why this computer was different from the other but I
>         may have inadvertently removed something?
> 
>         Next to find the permissions problem but this is good progress
>         for this early hour when I should be sleeping.
> 
>         Thanks much for your expert help.
> 
>         Bob
> 
> 
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There is a simple way to overcome this limitation. Find out what bus the
printer/scanner is on with lsusb. Then go into /dev/bus/usb and change the
permissions of the bus/device that you need access to.

Terry