[sane-devel] Re: xsane not detecting usb scanner

[Charles Duffy]

Rajasekaran J. wrote:
>    I have HP scanjet 4070 photosmart scanner,It works fine in Fedora core
> 3 and  Debian It detects with "sane-find-scanner" and "scanimage -L" But
> xsane or xscanimage not detecting the scanner.I am using with "Libusb"
> method because the kernel is 2.6.12-1-p4-smp.

Are you perhaps running "scanimage -L" as root but xsane as an 
unprivileged user?