Scanner does not work as user

[Jim Cornette]

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.

I liked the warnings given when running as root. You are on your own, 
don't call us. With that warning, I had to give it a shot. (curiousity)

As someone who doesn't program. This sounds like it could be resolved by 
test3. (If only device permissions for regular user.) I tried with the 
2.6 kernel. I was surprised that it worked as regular user with a 2.4 
kernel.

Thanks for the learning experience.

Jim

Also, Thanks to those that helped, with vmware issues I was having, for 
getting X up and running. The 4.4.0 change and the sample XF86Config 
aided me in figuring out Fedora installs in vmware with a window$ host.