I recently purchased an EPSON CX7400 All-In-One and it prints and copies great. Scanning has been a problem. I am running Debian Etch and have sane and xsane installed. Until this evening I could not get sane to recognize that I had a scanner installed at all. I'm not sure what changed that, but it now recognizes the scanner if I run scanimage, or xscanimage as root, but NOT if I run as a normal user. Running xsane as root gives me warnings that this is not a good idea. I would much rather run as a normal user. I have added scanner0 to /dev/.static/dev (that is probably what made it start to work at all) and I have changed its ownership to root:scanner with permissions of 664. I am in the scanner group, so I expected to be able to use it as non-root. Do I need to reboot for this to take effect. What else do I need to do to run xscanimage as non-root?
All help will be appreciated. -- Marc Shapiro mshapiro_42 at yahoo.com
