USB Scanner Permission Problem

[Gerry Tool]

Tim Waugh wrote:

>On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 08:34:31AM -0600, Gerry Tool wrote:
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>>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.
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>>I rebooted just to be sure.
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>>What am I missing?
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>I don't know.  It has worked for someone else.  Is there a
>/dev/usb/scanner* symlink?
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>Tim.
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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