Scanner does not work as user
Sandy Pond
sandy_pond at myrealbox.com
Mon Apr 19 13:15:35 UTC 2004
On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 09:04 -0400, Sandy Pond wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 07:45 +0200, Roland Wolters wrote:
>
> > Once upon a time Sandy Pond wrote:
> > > chmod 777 $(sane-find-scanner | \
> > > grep '^found USB scanner' | \
> > > sed -e 's?^.*libusb:?/proc/bus/usb/?' -e 's?:?/?')
> >
> > Ok, now scnaimage finds it, thank you very much.
> > But xsane now gives me a I/O device error:
> > /Failed to open device libusb:003:002
> > \Error during I/O device.
> >
> > :-(
> >
>
> I don't have a mustek but I think you need to correct the config file
> in /etc/sane.d/mustek*
>
> I would guess adding a line like:
>
> usb libusb:003:002
>
> To the proper file ... but maybe it's not supported.
>
> Does xsane work as root? If so then might be selinux. Try xsane after
> running:
>
> setenforce 0
>
> :)
Just checked ... xsane is badly broken with selinux enforcing ... turn
it off to use xsane.
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