[sane-devel] Brother: does not scan

[Alexander Pevzner]

Hi,

> I have an old workhorse, a Brother DCP 7010. This works (=scans) on
> Ubuntu 16.04, but refuses to scan on Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04 (in VM).
> 
> It prints without any problems.

Try to run your scanning app (xsane or simple-scan or even scanimage, it 
doesn't matter) from root. The problem may be due to access rights to 
USB devices.

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	Wishes, Alexander Pevzner (pzz at apevzner.com)