Well, after a reboot, I can now see the scanner without having to be root.
Strangely, my scanner still has root permissions: $ scanimage -L device `genesys:libusb:002:006' is a Canon LiDE 700F flatbed scanner $ ls -l /dev/bus/usb/002/006 crw-rw-r--+ 1 root root 189, 133 Mar 19 15:52 /dev/bus/usb/002/006 Thanks again for everyone's help! Brian Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:51:10 +0100 From: [email protected] To: bspisak at hotmail.com CC: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org Subject: Re: [sane-devel] CanoScan LiDE 700F On 19/03/2013 21:18, Brian Spisak wrote: Just unplug/replug and no help. I'll reboot now as well. I have to run out, but will be back in an hour or so. $ ls -l /dev/bus/usb/002/007 crw-rw-r--+ 1 root root 189, 134 Mar 19 13:16 /dev/bus/usb/002/007 I also see a rule for my device in /lib/udev/rules.d/40-libsane.rules # Canon CanoScan 700F ATTRS{idVendor}=="04a9", ATTRS{idProduct}=="1907", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes" Possible thing to check: - another *libsane.rules elsewhere - another rule applying first from another file - wrong persistent file in /etc/udev/rules.d Maybe udevadm (as root) could help, on my box it gives (with the last line below the most important): udevadm info --query=all --name=/dev/bus/usb/001/004 P: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:12.2/usb1/1-4 N: bus/usb/001/004 E: BUSNUM=001 E: DEVNAME=/dev/bus/usb/001/004 E: DEVNUM=004 E: DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:12.2/usb1/1-4 E: DEVTYPE=usb_device E: DRIVER=usb E: ID_BUS=usb E: ID_MODEL=CanoScan E: ID_MODEL_ENC=CanoScan E: ID_MODEL_ID=2213 E: ID_REVISION=0302 E: ID_SERIAL=Canon_CanoScan E: ID_USB_INTERFACES=:ffffff: E: ID_VENDOR=Canon E: ID_VENDOR_ENC=Canon E: ID_VENDOR_ID=04a9 E: MAJOR=189 E: MINOR=3 E: PRODUCT=4a9/2213/302 E: SUBSYSTEM=usb E: TYPE=255/255/255 E: UDEV_LOG=3 E: USEC_INITIALIZED=6561531242 E: libsane_matched=yes You could alos use 'udevadm test /dev/bus/usb/002/007' to get udev debug traces. Regards, Stef -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/attachments/20130319/f816d073/attachment-0001.html>
