On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 [email protected] wrote: > If I run "sane-find-scanner" as root it correctly says:- > > found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x012c [EPSON Scanner]) > at libusb:7:2 > > I can make this work as a user by changing permissions but I'm not > clear how to make the change 'stick'.
look at the docs for udev, i assume slack uses it. > > If I run "scanimage -L" as root it says "No scanners were identified". > > If I run "xsane" or "xscanimage" as root they find both my scanners. the fact that scanimage does not work, but xsane does, generally means that you have two copies of sane-backends installed, often the distro's original one, and one in /usr/local > > If I run "xsane" or "xscanimage" as a user they only see the HP > all-in-one scanner. permissions > > If I run iscan (which I have installed) it says "Could not send > command to scanner". > no idea. i dont use epson stuff or iscan. > > So how do I get this all to work consistently? > trash all copies of sane on system. try again? i dont know if you need the proprietary modules or if the epson backend works? allan > -- "so don't tell us it can't be done, putting down what you don't know. money isn't our god, integrity will free our souls" - Max Cavalera
