Scanner does not work as user

[Roland Wolters]

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