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this is what I use doas -u root scanimage --mode gray -x215 -y297 --resolution 300dpi -B > fdsa.pnm which works with the perms asis. xsane only worked as root for me (across multple platforms/revs) so it's always been something that needed a lot of setup/takedown to use. Dhu On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 16:13:25 +0000 Anthony Campbell <a...@acampbell.uk> wrote: > On 07 Mar 2021, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > On 2021-03-07, Anthony Campbell <a...@acampbell.uk> wrote: > > > > > > Hello misc@: > > > > > > > > > My Epson Perfection 1650 has worked on -current for many months but in > > > the last 3 days attempts to scan with xsane say: "Failed to start > > > scanner: operation not supported". > > > > > > Scanimage -L shows the scanner is detected corectly. > > > > > > I have already made the permissions changes for usb as instructed in the > > > sane-backend pkg-readme. > > > > > > I have added my user to the operator group without effect. > > > > > > This problem isn't only in -current. In two laptops running the i386 > > > -release version of OpenBSD things are even worse - scanimage will only > > > detect the scanner as root in this case. > > > > > > > > > I think this may be a permissions problem but I can't run xsane as root > > > because this gives "cannot open display: 0:" > > > > > > > > > Not having a working scanner is a major problem for me. Any suggestgions > > > gratefully received. > > > > As things stand it will need to access /dev/ugen* and possibly /dev/usb* > > (chown/chmod); running MAKEDEV will reset permissions so you might want > > to add that to rc.local/. Alternatively someone will need to write a > > kernel driver for it and modify scanning software to work with that. > > > > > > Thanks for your reply. I've now got the scanner working on my laptops > (running -release). It still won't scan on my desktop, running -current; > I think this happened after the last upgrade, so something must have > changed somewhere. But that's a minor inconvenience; at least I can scan > again. > > > > -- > Anthony Campbell https://www.acampbell.uk > > - -- Je suis Canadien. Ce n'est pas Francais ou Anglaise. C'est une esp`ece de sauvage: ne obliviscaris, vix ea nostra voco;-) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJgRlfSAAoJEI6Vun3D6YUPBEkP/RnjLzhFIVkj2ChPtX5r53KF K4U1sDXcBJHRB4ETezdf0007zsm5tqHqxIvur1m901NOqzs1naYtTu+Wvq4dNI5O vqvNQX57ly1nKxql7nSAlJ0fcEptuQC5GWi5xHYdB6dqmdBgW8amTRqVrsZZlLl+ CXks7bwg1Yln/oOjbmfaSuD6D7Vi1YlcSuFc6NbZyLqhu53DIV50jZdZ+fca681t Fw68NXLHEtlusPAACV0TtACNbjMUJM/iqY7/hb9U+skTnoG0UsUNvVUe8Om6pHJy mk7LJPY4emOHqT/eZc0CEzPTjmPkccgy56KlREHFI3CG6MiPkUaghsOEzhipXJ4K Yv6ce5jktH0MMxVL7dFTfK8W/otHQrrXTk2MhhusrJa4RViEffPCmZgDwSXmREg9 yzF8FMuSztx1krUlk4cf6d1KHBxHiDtQ6t4R7pD4QSuAASiUn91KwnT1g0LqQJrK jEZRNa3gTV6coT7nBc78bWpXkUf0J1AAONtqFsaLlG6YdayKDn9fihDzrg3Hzkyt QJQuP1TgXJvpKzFWrTpgad0Zo9BtEvtHHQ/V1T5R5lXvtiglr0BTCcyT6/3sOhqs ULOKAGTfXGGtKtXleiNPiJLl6UARLuxCXbMY0a95sYM/aP7R8HLTmDMOvUNjcmb/ xb/FR5S/UgYNgmv2uIl+ =++nG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
