[sane-devel] Problems with sane and USB

[m. allan noah]

On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 cl at isbd.net wrote:

> If I run "sane-find-scanner" as root it correctly says:-
>
>    found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x012c [EPSON Scanner]) at libusb:7:2
>
> I can make this work as a user by changing permissions but I'm not
> clear how to make the change 'stick'.

look at the docs for udev, i assume slack uses it.

>
> If I run "scanimage -L" as root it says "No scanners were identified".
>
> If I run "xsane" or "xscanimage" as root they find both my scanners.

the fact that scanimage does not work, but xsane does, generally means 
that you have two copies of sane-backends installed, often the distro's 
original one, and one in /usr/local

>
> If I run "xsane" or "xscanimage" as a user they only see the HP
> all-in-one scanner.

permissions

>
> If I run iscan (which I have installed) it says "Could not send
> command to scanner".
>

no idea. i dont use epson stuff or iscan.

>
> So how do I get this all to work consistently?
>

trash all copies of sane on system. try again? i dont know if you need the 
proprietary modules or if the epson backend works?

allan

>

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