On 30 Oct, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > After a long search on the net I've found out > that the permissions of the usb device are set wrong > (root.usb) > It looks like an UDEV rule installed by sane-backends > sets the user to root and the group to usb. > With these settings CUPS won't recognize/use the printer. > > I had to add the following rule to /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules > (e.g.) > > ATTR{idVendor}=="0482", ATTR{idProduct}=="0015", MODE:="0777", > GROUP:="lp", USER:="lp", ENV{libsane_matched}:="yes"
this must be OWNER:="lp" of course. > > where one has to vary the idVendor and idProduct, of course. > > Even for a casual Gentoo user that's neither trivial nor comfortable. > If the printer breaks sometime one has to remember to change that rule. > And it wasn't easy to find that advice. > > Where should I report a bug to ? > To > net-print/cups > or > media-gfx/sane-backends > or where else? > > Thanks for your help, > Helmut. > > -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany