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The Saturday 2007-06-09 at 08:00 -0400, Bob Kline wrote:
> Well, I'm heeding as well as I know how. In this case, his advice was a
> single sentence:
>
> > If you let it get autodetected and configured by YAST, then it the
> > permissions should be set up correctly.
>
> So I replied explaining that I thought that's what I had done, and I went on
> to describe exactly what I was doing, hoping someone would spot and point out
> to me whatever boneheaded mistake I had made. Here's my reply:
You should simply reply always to the list, which he scans (pun intended
;-) )
> Well, I thought I had done that (as indicated above), but perhaps
> what I did and "let it get autodetected and configured by YAST"
> aren't exactly the same things. I log into the machine as root, run
> yast2, click on Hardware, then Scanners, and I see it run through an
> unattended checklist ending with "Detecting USB and SCSI scanners"
> after which it shows a line with "plustek Canon N1240U/LiDE30 at
> plustek:libusb:007:002". If I click on Other ...
Isn't that your scanner?
> Restart Detection
> I end up with the same display.
Then your scanner is reporting itself that way. You can check with
"usbview".
> If I click Other ... Test I hear
> the hardware make some noises and a bunch of tests are listed and
> all marked as OK. If I then log
I assume you accepted yast proposal. :-?
> into the machine as a normal user
> and run xsane I end up with the "No devices available" message. Am
> I missing a step in YAST?
>
>
> Can anyone tell me where the gap is between what I am doing in YaST and what
> Mr. Meissner is advising me to do? Is there some other package on which all
> of this relies that everyone's assuming I have (but don't)? For example,
> earlier in the thread I pointed out the discrepancy between a FAQ document
> some other poster had directed me to and my configuration: I noted that the
> FAQ says that SANE "... comes with a hotplug script and related documentation
> ..." but I can't find any such script or documentation in any of the three
> packages installed on the machine which have "sane" in the package name.
Linux is a moving target, and things change, sometimes a lot. If that
script does not exist, it means that things are done diferently, by SuSE,
or nowdays.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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