Xsane problem Solved!
John Thompson
john at vector.os2.dhs.org
Sun Mar 9 22:36:46 UTC 2008
On 2008-03-08, John Thompson <john at vector.os2.dhs.org> wrote:
> Running Fedora8 64-bit, xsane cannot access my USB scanner when invoked
> as a mortal user. The "scanning for devices" pop-up appears and persists
> without finding anything until I kill it manually. Curiously,
> sane-find-scanner has no problem finding the device when run as a
> mortal user:
>
> [john at lancre ~]$ sane-find-scanner
[yada, yada...]
> found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x0101
> [Perfection636]) at libusb:001:009
Problem solved by editing /etc/sane.d/epson.conf and explicitly
providing the usb <vendor ID> and <product ID> provided by
"sane-find-scanner," e.g.:
usb 0x04b8 0x0101
--
John (john at os2.dhs.org)
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