On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Petr Hlustik wrote: > Hello, > > I got my hands on the Epson Expression636 which comes with both SCSI and > parallel ports. W/o SCSI on my RedHat8 box, I tried the parallel > port. Scanning works if I'm root (Yes!!) but not as a regular user. This my
I noticed this too. I'm assuming the backend does direct port reads and writes to the address you give it. It would not be able to use the lp driver, but I thought it should be able to use parport. I didn't spend any time looking at the code once I got it working as root. -- Greg Weeks http://durendal.org/greg/
