I have nothing but good things to say!
Andy Green
fedora at warmcat.com
Sat Nov 29 06:40:13 UTC 2003
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On Saturday 29 November 2003 00:07, Bryan Anderson wrote:
> > Yes, it's a parallel port scanner. You don't have to run
> What did you do to make xsane find your scanner when logged in as a
> normal user?
Its usually a matter of finding the device 'file' in /dev, and changing its
permissions or your permissions.
[root at fastcat dev]# ll /dev/parport*
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 99, 0 Sep 15 14:40 /dev/parport0
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 99, 1 Sep 15 14:40 /dev/parport1
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 99, 2 Sep 15 14:40 /dev/parport2
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 99, 3 Sep 15 14:40 /dev/parport3
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 99, 4 Sep 15 14:40 /dev/parport4
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 99, 5 Sep 15 14:40 /dev/parport5
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 99, 6 Sep 15 14:40 /dev/parport6
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 99, 7 Sep 15 14:40 /dev/parport7
[root at fastcat dev]# ll /dev/lp*
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 0 Sep 15 14:40 /dev/lp0
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 1 Sep 15 14:40 /dev/lp1
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 2 Sep 15 14:40 /dev/lp2
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 3 Sep 15 14:40 /dev/lp3
First thing I would try is adding my user to the lp group. IIRC you may need
to logout and log back in (not a reboot tho) to get the changed groupfulness
available in whatever apps you are running the other apps from.
- -Andy
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