USB Scanner Permission Problem
Gerry Tool
gstool at earthlink.net
Fri Nov 19 16:12:45 UTC 2004
Tim Waugh wrote:
>On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 08:34:31AM -0600, Gerry Tool wrote:
>
>
>
>>I rushed to do what you said, I now have
>>[root at gstpc-fc3 ~]# rpm -q sane-backends
>>sane-backends-1.0.15-2
>>[root at gstpc-fc3 ~]# rpm -q hotplug
>>hotplug-2004_04_01-10
>>and my Epson 1240U scanner still will not open in Gimp until I execute
>>chmod a+w /proc/bus/usb/003/002
>>as root.
>>
>>I rebooted just to be sure.
>>
>>What am I missing?
>>
>>
>
>I don't know. It has worked for someone else. Is there a
>/dev/usb/scanner* symlink?
>
>Tim.
>*/
>
>
There is no /dev/usb/, let alone a link. This is a system that started
with a fresh anaconda install and has all updates-released as of this
morning.
Gerry
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