[Sussex] scanners

[Geoff Teale]

On Sunday 13 April 2003 19:40, john davis wrote:
> Thanks for the prompt reply Geoff,

S'alright :)

> Being a linux nugget, I don't really understand what I am doing - just
> guessing really so from your post (followed in true "monkey see, monkey do"
> style)

OK.

<snip>
> [john at localhost john]$ sane-find-scanner
>
>   # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure
> that
>   # you have loaded a SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.

<snip>

OK, you did everything fine up until the part where I said to make a new group 
called scanner.  For the moment don't worry about this, just boot your 
machine and log in as root rather than as john and then try firing up xsane.

It sounds like you machine is recognising the scanner OK, and loading the 
correct modules, you just simply don't have rights to talk to the scanner 
from the user account 'john'.

If it works OK under root then we'll go through getting it to work as 'john' .

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GJT
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