[Wolves] Whoope Sound

Andy Wootton andy.wootton at wyrley.demon.co.uk
Sun May 29 22:28:39 BST 2005


Peter Cannon wrote:

>The only bugger is, at the moment, I can only get xsane to run as root user if 
>I try and run it as peter it says "no scanner detected" I've no idea how to 
>sort it and to be honest I don't fancy mucking about as I might lose it all 
>together.
>
>I'm getting 30 or 40 error messages in /var/log/messages
>
>May 29 21:07:53 darkstar hal.hotplug[9596]: DEVPATH is not set
>
>Any ideas anyone?
>  
>
Hi Peter,

It sounds like you're on a role, so I'd check the protection of the 
serial device. If you don't have read access then you won't be able to 
see it.

DEVPATH sounds like an unset environmental variable, like PATH. Try 
Googling for "hotplug devpath".

Woo



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