usb scanner setup

[Sandy Pond]

On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 14:35 +0000, Tim Waugh wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 08:27:21AM -0500, Sandy Pond wrote:
> 
> > I needed to add;
> > 
> > usb 0x04b8 0x0110
> > 
> > to /etc/sane.d/epson.conf to be able to talk to my Epson 1650 scanner
> > and;
> 
> Does 'usb /dev/usb/scanner0' work instead?

Nope.  That's how I had it setup in FC1.

> 
> > chmod 777 $(sane-find-scanner | \
> >             grep '^found USB scanner' | \
> >             sed -e 's?^.*libusb:?/proc/bus/usb/?' -e 's?:?/?')
> 
> For /dev/usb/scanner0 this step shouldn't be needed.
> 
> > to /etc/rc.d/rc.local so that normal users could use it.  Is there a
> > bug here or is this the normal configuration procedure (I'm glad ESR
> > didn't try to setup a usb scanner)?
> 
> Unfortunately this stuff isn't set up automatically, and there is an
> open bug for it to be:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=80613
> 
> If anyone can provide clues about how this should/could be done, that
> bug report would be the place to put them!

There's many bugs with the approach I took above for user permissions.
I don't know what the plan is for scanner configuration with sane and
kernel-2.6/libusb/udev/hotplug.  Wish I knew.