Proceed as shown on
http://www.linuxprinting.org/download/digitalimage/Scanning-as-Normal-User-on-Wierd-Scanner-Mini-HOWTO.txt
and your scanner should also work for normal users.
Till
Kim L. Mantle wrote:
> I have MandrakeLinux 9.2.
>
> For the past month or so I have had great difficulty trying to find out why
> Xsane would only recognise 'Super User' and not 'Normal User'.
>
> I have made sure on each occasion I have re-installed 9.2 that there is only
> one installation of Sane. I have then installed/upgraded (Sane Backends
> 1.0.12-5mdk) - also used the version on the Distro's CDs - and then Xsane and
> also tried it the other way around. But each time I get the message 'No
> Device found' when using 'Normal User' - yet when I use 'Super User' -
> bang... in comes Xsane and I am also then able to use Gimp.
>
> Via the Konsole I am only able to get any sense out of the scanner by using
> the commands scanimage -L or -T and xsane by using 'Super User'. When I try
> to get the same answers with 'Normal User' - I am told that there is no
> device.
>
> All I am wanting to achieve for the installation via DrakeScanner to load in
> what I require and then for me to use the scanner. When I use 'Super User'
> Xsane keeps telling me not to use 'Super User' as it is dangerous.
>
> Has anyone any solution - I know this same situation exists with other users
> as the author of Xsane has gone to some lengths to explain things with is
> various readme files. There has to be a solution surely ......
>
> Is it that Sane loads wrong file permissions?
>
> Please help me out of this hole I seem to have gotten into.
>
> Thanks
>
> Kimbo
>
>
