[sane-devel] Set up: "Epson Perfection 1670 Photo" - Debian Unstable

[Dan Hunt]

Oliver Schwartz wrote:

>Hi,
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>>I have edited /etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf to
>>uncomment out the line
>>/dev/usb/scanner0 bus=usb
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>For kernel 2.6 this line should be removed. SANE will detect your 
>scanner automatically using libusb.
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>>Anyone have some gentle guidance or HOWTO I must read to get this
>>scanner sharing my vacation photo's on my website?
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>You need to edit snapscan.conf to point to the correct firmware file. 
>See http://snapscan.sf.net
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Wow that worked! Love it! Thanks. Used bits of this
http://www.commercialventvac.com/~jeffs/epson1670andFedora.html
page to grab the firmware rather than get it from the c.d.

I can scan as "Root". Lots of dire warnings saying I should not.
So I discovered in the FAQ that
#chmod a+rw /proc/bus/usb/004/005  allows regular user
to scan! And it works!

However the FAQ mentions that this permission is not
permanent. What "Hot plug tools" am I looking for to allow all users to 
access the scanner?

Kind Regards,
Dan Hunt