USB Scanner Permission Problem

Gerry Tool gstool at earthlink.net
Fri Nov 19 17:34:00 UTC 2004


Tim Waugh wrote:

>On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 10:50:10AM -0600, Gerry Tool wrote:
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>>Do I take it right that I should plug in another device, like a USB 
>>flash drive to get this to work?
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>That ought to make it work, yes.  Ideally the
>/etc/hotplug/usb/libusbscanner script should handle this somehow.
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>Tim.
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No cigar.  I plugged in a USB flash drive, rebooted, tried opening the 
scanner in Gimp, and it says No devices available as it always does 
until I run my fixscan script that changes permissions.

Gerry




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