[sane-devel] Problems with sane and USB

[cl at isbd.net]

On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 11:06:50AM +0100, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
> m. allan noah wrote, On 11/05/2006 01:12 AM:
> > 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'.
> > 
> 
> http://www.sane-project.org/README.linux , read the "Permissions:" section.
> 
> "One solution to set permissions on-the-fly is Linux udev which comes
> with current distributions. SANE comes with a udev rules file in the
> tools/udev directory which may be used by distributions or can be copied
> to /etc/udev/rules.d manually. The file format is explained on top of
> the file itself. Either you need libusb 0.1.12 or newer or
> USB_DEVFS_PATH=/dev/bus/usb must be exported as a system-wide
> environment variable."
> 
Thanks, OK, I'll have a dig around there when I've cleared up the
other issues I have.  Part of the problem has been that several
problems have interacted to make things even more confusing than
normal.

-- 
Chris Green (chris at halon.org.uk)