You will have to adjust the device permissions, using something like udev, or hal. Unfortunately, the mechanism seems to change frequently with linux distros, so I cannot be more specific. You can look in the sane-backends package that came with the distro, and see what sort of files it installs.
allan On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Per Dalgas Jakobsen <pdj at knaldgas.dk> wrote: > scanimage -L fails as user (succeeds as root). > > As user: > $ SANE_DEBUG_EPJITSU=255 scanimage -L > ... > [epjitsu] attach_one: start 'libusb:001:003' > [epjitsu] connect_fd: start > [epjitsu] connect_fd: opening USB device > [epjitsu] connect_fd: could not open device: 11 > [epjitsu] connect_fd: finish > [epjitsu] destroy: start > ... > > As root: > # SANE_DEBUG_EPJITSU=255 scanimage -L > ... > [epjitsu] attach_one: start 'libusb:001:003' > [epjitsu] connect_fd: start > [epjitsu] connect_fd: opening USB device > [epjitsu] connect_fd: finish > [epjitsu] init_fw: start > ... > > User is member of scanner group. > File permission of /dev/bus/usb/001/003 (scanner device) is "crw-rw-r-T" > with owner "root:root". > > What should I check more? > > The scanner is a Fujitsu S1100 using the epjitsu backend 1.0.23 with a > patch. > Debian Wheezy. > > ~Per > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > ? ? ? ? ? ?to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
