[sane-devel] Sane only available to Super User - Canon FP330P

[Kim L. Mantle]

Till

I thank you for your prompt response and accurate assessment of the issue I
have been grappling with over recent times.

Your advice has been wonderful - after completing the required changes my
scanner came up first time!!

May you and all other sane group members - I wish you all the very best for
Christmas and New Year.

Looking forward to the continuation of sane-devel group mailings. Surprising
how much information is so readily provided by this group.

Regards to you

Kimbo

-----Original Message-----
From: Till Kamppeter [mailto:till.kamppeter at gmx.net] 
Sent: Sunday, 14 December 2003 5:09 a.m.
To: kimbo at xtra.co.nz
Cc: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
Subject: Re: [sane-devel] Sane only available to Super User - Canon FP330P


Proceed as shown on

http://www.linuxprinting.org/download/digitalimage/Scanning-as-Normal-User-o
n-Wierd-Scanner-Mini-HOWTO.txt

and your scanner should also work for normal users.

    Till


Kim L. Mantle wrote:
> I have MandrakeLinux 9.2.
> 
> For the past month or so I have had great difficulty trying to find 
> out why Xsane would only recognise 'Super User' and not 'Normal User'.
> 
> I have made sure on each occasion I have re-installed 9.2 that there 
> is only one installation of Sane. I have then installed/upgraded (Sane 
> Backends 1.0.12-5mdk) - also used the version on the Distro's CDs - 
> and then Xsane and also tried it the other way around. But each time I 
> get the message 'No Device found' when using 'Normal User' - yet when 
> I use 'Super User' - bang... in comes Xsane and I am also then able to 
> use Gimp.
> 
> Via the Konsole I am only able to get any sense out of the scanner by 
> using the commands scanimage -L or -T and xsane by using 'Super User'. 
> When I try to get the same answers with 'Normal User' - I am told that 
> there is no device.
> 
> All I am wanting to achieve for the installation via DrakeScanner to 
> load in what I require and then for me to use the scanner. When I use 
> 'Super User' Xsane keeps telling me not to use 'Super User' as it is 
> dangerous.
> 
> Has anyone any solution - I know this same situation exists with other 
> users as the author of Xsane has gone to some lengths to explain 
> things with is various readme files. There has to be a solution surely 
> ......
> 
> Is it that Sane loads wrong file permissions?
> 
> Please help me out of this hole I seem to have gotten into.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Kimbo
> 
>