On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 03:35:14PM -0400, Bob Kline wrote: > I've done some searching around to find out why I can only use the > scanner as root on a machine on which I've just installed SuSE 10.2 > (i386). (Didn't have this problem under Fedora, though plenty of other > problems that switching to SuSE solved.) > > I've found some older postings (latest is 10.0 vintage) with general > advice about getting scanners configured. Some advise manual tweaking > of settings in the /etc/sane.d files (which I've tried). Others say > it's better to just bring up YaST and run the configuration from there > (tried that, too). Neither worked. I can scan until the cows come home > as root but a regular user account gets the dreaded "no devices found" > error message. Amusingly, when I run xsane as a regular user and the > "No devices available" dialog window pops up, there is a "Help" button; > when I push it, I see "Possible reasons: ... the permissions for the > device file do not allow you to use it - try as root"; then when I run > xsane as root up pops "Warning. You try to run XSane as ROOT, that > really is DANGEROUS!! Do not send any bug reports when you have any > problem while running XSane as root: YOU ARE ALONE! ... [Cancel] ... > [Continue at your own risk]." > > I've tried chmod on the /dev files, but that doesn't stick. I'm not > surprised: I assume that the device files are set up on the fly, but I > don't know how to control the permissions. > > Can I get a clue, please? I'm perfectly prepared to take some razzing > about how easy it should have been for me to find this information on my > own, but I really did try some googling, just didn't pick the right > magic combination of keywords.
If you let it get autodetected and configured by YAST, then it the permissions should be set up correctly. Ciao, Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
