Xsane problem Solved!

[John Thompson]

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

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John (john at os2.dhs.org)