Fedora Core 3: Epson Perfection 1650 USB Scanner only recognized as "root"

[Tim Waugh]

On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 04:11:43PM -0600, Erwin J. Prinz wrote:

> I have an Epson Perfection 1650 scanner connected to the USB port on a 
> fully updated Fedora Core 3 system. I added the "usb" line in 
> /etc/sane.d/epson.conf. When starting xsane as normal user, no devices 
> are recognized. As root, scanning works as expected. I can scan as a 
> normal user after changing the permissions in /proc/bus/usb/001/003 to 
> -rw-rw-rw- (666), but this change is not persistent after the next boot-up.
> 
> What is the preferred way to obtain the "666" permissions? I thought 
> that /etc/hotplug/usb/libusbscanner should set the permissions for the 
> console user correctly, but apparently it doesn't.

How about when you turn it off, and then on? (There are bugs in
bugzilla for this.)

Tim.
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