[sane-devel] fujitus scansnap ix500 (not found by sane-find-scanner)

[m. allan noah]

Every recent linux distro handles permissions differently. Something
in udev or hal needs to know about the scanner's vid/pid.

allan

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 9:20 AM, andreo73 <andrea.baragi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks!! Before changing /etc/ld.so.conf I try simplest methods, e.g.
>
> 1) change name of /usr/lib/sane to /usr/lib/sane_OLDVERSION hoping that it
> is sufficient to "remove" them from dynamical linking, but it did'nt work
> (wonder why...)
>
> 2) prepend LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib to the executable; this worked but
> only with sudo
>
>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib SANE_DEBUG_FUJITSU=5 scanimage -L
>
> [sanei_debug] Setting debug level of fujitsu to 5.
> [fujitsu] sane_init: fujitsu backend 1.0.117, from sane-backends 1.0.24
> [fujitsu] sane_get_devices: config option "buffer-size" (262144) is > 65536,
> warning!
> [fujitsu] connect_fd: could not open device: 11
>
> No scanners were identified. (etc.)
>
> or otherwise with sudo:
>
>> sudo LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib SANE_DEBUG_FUJITSU=5 scanimage -L
>
> [sanei_debug] Setting debug level of fujitsu to 5.
> [fujitsu] sane_init: fujitsu backend 1.0.117, from sane-backends 1.0.24
> [fujitsu] sane_get_devices: config option "buffer-size" (262144) is > 65536,
> warning!
> device `fujitsu:ScanSnap iX500:55189' is a FUJITSU ScanSnap iX500 scanner
>
> --------------------------------------------
>
> in conclusion now with
>
>> sudo LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib simple-scan
>
> I can get pages scanned!!
>
> Hints (or reference) on how to fix the permission problem?
>
> thanks a lot for the fast and precise help
>
> Andrea
>
>
>
>
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