Scanner does not work as user

[Roland Wolters]

Once upon a time Jim Cornette wrote:
> Roland Wolters wrote:
> > Once upon a time Jim Cornette wrote:
> >>[problems with xsane and usb scanner mustek in FC2dev]
> >>
> >>I doubt that this fact for my scanner will help you. I can scan if I use
> >>a Fedora Core 1 - 2.4 kernel. I have an HP ScanJet 2100C and don't need
> >>to edit anything to get it to work. I tried this with the Fedora Core 2
> >>version of xsane and did not have any problem. With the 2.6 kernel
> >>version, no dice, not recognized.
> >>I figured that they changed some module from the 2.4 kernel to the 2.6
> >>kernel and have not made the needed changes to xsane and initscripts to
> >>get some of these scanners off of the "unemployment" roles.
> >>With SELinux in the mix now, it might cause a lot of problems running a
> >>non-SELinux aware kernel, just to scan something.
> >>Oh well! Maybe the scanners will be working for test3.
> >
> > Well, I was able to scan under FC1, too.
> > So you might be right about the missing xsane changes and selinux...
> >
> > Roland
>
> It looks like it is a device permission issue. I tried it from a root
> shell and it scanned the item perfectly and I didn't have to configure
> anything.

Well, I don't think that is a permission issue. I can noot scan as root, too, 
so it seems to be something different, maybe depending on selinux.
I will start a bugzilla entry today, I think...

Roland