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

[Gerry Tool]

Alan Cox wrote:

>On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 11:27:38AM -0600, Gerry Tool wrote:
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>>BUT, this bug has been recognized for 7 months, and so far all I see is 
>>a lot of bickering about who should fix it.
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>Like SELinux the HAL/udev changes are affecting core code, and unsuprisingly
>both of them have had a few kinks
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>>device I've been using since Red Hat Linux 7.3.  FC2 broke scanner use, 
>>and now FC3 has broken use of internal Zip drives (bugzilla 136971).  
>>I'm getting discouraged.
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>Seems easy to fix in HAL, attached a comment lets see if its doable and
>David can whistle up a magic fix
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Thanks for your  comments, Alan.  David did come up with a static change 
to my fstab that allows me to use the zip drive.  Of course, fixing the 
basic problem would be better.

I also see from looking at the scanner bug report (121511) that some 
help may be on the way there.