Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 10:43:37 +1000 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm trying to set up an HP scanner on RH7.3
*if* I run xsane as root, xsane warns me of dire consequences of doing so, and, if I accept these risks, it just runs
*if* I try to run xsane as a user, I get 'no device present'
I've symlinked /dev/sc0 to /dev/scanner and set rwxrwxrwx as root, I can access scanner as either device
I solved this on my computer by creating a *drc file in ~/.sane/xsane
In my case this is Acer:FlatbedScanner__4.drc
This was just a straight copy of the file that was in the /root/.sane/xsane directory.
I don't know if there is a better solution or a better (common) location for the file so that I don't have to create it for each user.
(hmmm, perhaps I need to chmod /dev/sc0 and not symlink... /dev/scanner, perhaps that's where I went rwong... don't have access to it right now to test)
also: is there a "CopyShop" like scanner app for scanning pages for fax or imaging, from my brief look at xsane, it seems it more amed at image/single page scanning, or have I missed something ?
Sorry, that I don't know. xsane does have buttons for fax and copy modes, but I have never tried to set them up.
Regards, Andrew -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
