On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 12:38:39AM +0000, Timothy Johnson wrote:
> I hope no one minds me posting a question here. If it is a problem
> please let me know, I starting feeling guilty about sending all of my
> questions to Stef who apparently had a large part in developing the
> umax_pp patch.
>
> The problem I am having is with using sane with my umax-2000p parport
> scanner as a regular user. I am able to use it fine as root, but the
> scanner appears nonexistent as a normal user. I changed the attributes
> on my parports to allow regular users the ability to read and write the
> parports per Stef's recommendation, but this still did not work. I also
> manually loaded ppdev, and I am a bit confused over the issue regarding
> creating a ppdev character device. I read somewhere that the ppdev
> module uses the parport, but I also seem to remember the documentation
> saying that a ppdev character device may need to be created in order to
> use the scanner as a regular user. How does this fit together?
>
> Thanks again, and thanks for all your hard work on this, I and all the
> other Linux users out here very much appreciate it.
>
> If I need to be sending my questions somewhere else please let me know.
>
> -Tim
>
Hello,
in order to get sure that ppdev is working OK on your linux box,
you may try the examples programs at:
http://people.redhat.com/twaugh/parport/html/ppdev.html
If they do, it's a backend issue....
Regards,
Stef
