[sane-devel] scanner flakiness in mandrake 9.x

[Till Kamppeter]

technomage wrote:
> ok,
> it took me a couple of hours to get an HP scanjet 5t (scsi) working onmandrake 
> 9.0.
> 
> the problem, as it turned out, was that the users could not access the device 
> because "no permission to access the device". for anyone that has this 
> problem, the solution is to add your user(s) to the cdwriter group as a 
> supplimentary group (this can be done easily enough in linuxconf).
> 
> this method also seems to work for other scanner brands as well that are 
> detected by the sane-find-scanner tool as root, but wouldn't let an ordinary 
> user access the device (as other than root).
> 
> the HP device is actually on a scsi-2 High Density connector attached to an 
> adaptec 2940U on a system that contains: 1 GB ram, 900 Mhz AMD Athelon CPU, 
> built in SiS630 Video subsystem, Soundblaster Live audio and am HP 8000 
> Cdwriter+.
> 
> I did get the device working for all users (as detailed above). anything that 
> would make this simpler I'm game for.
> 
> comments? suggestions?
>

Should work out-of-the-box in Mandrake 9.1.

    Till