I run CentOS 5.5 on my home desktop: 2.6.18-194.17.1.el5 #1 SMP Wed Sep 29 12:50:31 EDT 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux centos-release-5-5.el5.centos.x86_64 GNOME 2.16.0 (included/integrated w/CentOS 5)
A while back I bought a new HP J3600 scan/fax/copy/print-er and connected it to my system. At first it was visible to the root but not me as an ordinary user. I had no trouble configuring it as a printer, but the scanner was invisible to xsane until I added my user id to the lp group. Now it's gone again, except that it is visible as a usb device to me as a normal user, but xsane can't seem to find it any more. Can anyone hazard a guess at what's wrong? $ lsusb Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 002 Device 006: ID 03f0:3112 Hewlett-Packard Bus 002 Device 004: ID 22b8:2ac2 Motorola PCS Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 002 Device 002: ID 04f9:0033 Brother Industries, Ltd Bus 002 Device 003: ID 03f0:0205 Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 3300c It's Bus 2, Dev 6. There is nothing in any of the /var/log/* files to indicate any kind of problem. I unplugged the scanner and then plugged it back in and found this: $ sane-find-scanner # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer. # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that # you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter. found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0 [HP], product=0x3112 [Officejet J3600 series]) at libusb:002:005 found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0 [Hewlett-Packard], product=0x0205 [HP ScanJet 3300C]) at libusb:002:004 # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage. # Not checking for parallel port scanners. # Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports # can't be detected by this program. # You may want to run this program as root to find all devices. Once you # found the scanner devices, be sure to adjust access permissions as # necessary. So, sane-find-scanner finds the scanner, but xsane does not? This was working perfectly a few days ago. I'm not sure where else to look.... TIA, Mark
