Till I thank you for your prompt response and accurate assessment of the = issue I have been grappling with over recent times.
Your advice has been wonderful - after completing the required changes = my scanner came up first time!! May you and all other sane group members - I wish you all the very best = for Christmas and New Year. Looking forward to the continuation of sane-devel group mailings. = Surprising how much information is so readily provided by this group. Regards to you Kimbo -----Original Message----- From: Till Kamppeter [mailto:[email protected]]=20 Sent: Sunday, 14 December 2003 5:09 a.m. To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [sane-devel] Sane only available to Super User - Canon = FP330P Proceed as shown on http://www.linuxprinting.org/download/digitalimage/Scanning-as-Normal-Use= r-o n-Wierd-Scanner-Mini-HOWTO.txt and your scanner should also work for normal users. Till Kim L. Mantle wrote: > I have MandrakeLinux 9.2. >=20 > For the past month or so I have had great difficulty trying to find=20 > out why Xsane would only recognise 'Super User' and not 'Normal User'. >=20 > I have made sure on each occasion I have re-installed 9.2 that there=20 > 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 -=20 > 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=20 > I use 'Super User' - bang... in comes Xsane and I am also then able to = > use Gimp. >=20 > Via the Konsole I am only able to get any sense out of the scanner by=20 > 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. >=20 > All I am wanting to achieve for the installation via DrakeScanner to=20 > load in what I require and then for me to use the scanner. When I use=20 > 'Super User' Xsane keeps telling me not to use 'Super User' as it is=20 > dangerous. >=20 > 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=20 > things with is various readme files. There has to be a solution surely = > ...... >=20 > Is it that Sane loads wrong file permissions? >=20 > Please help me out of this hole I seem to have gotten into. >=20 > Thanks >=20 > Kimbo >=20 >=20
