Hi Henning, Peter and Thomas. Many thanks for your help with this problem. It turned out that /dev/sg1 had only root permission which was easily fixed as you suggested. The scanner now works brilliantly through KDE. There is still the issue of access to X from the command line, which is not fixed by running xhost, but I will follow that up locally.
Again, my thanks for your assistance. Regards, Barry On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 17:40, Thomas Soumarmon wrote: > The device you try to connect to should be accessible by the user who runs > scanimage, xscanimage, xsane, etc... > do a > ls -al /dev/scanner > and > ls -al /dev/sg1 > to check that "other users" are allowed to read and write the device. If > not, use > chmod 766 /dev/sg1 > chmod 766 /dev/scanner > to grant read-write access to all users to those devices. > > > The other problem (connecting to display: :0.0) looks like a permissioning > issue under X. > You could change the DISPLAY environment variable before trying to run > xscanimage with root to set it to another display ? > > Le Lundi 13 Janvier 2003 05:05, Barry Kirsten a écrit : > > Hi Henning, > > > > On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 08:15, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > > > Well, what does happen when you try to scan? Try scanimage >image.pnm. > > > If that doesn't work, set the debug variable. Do the same for xsane. > > > Do you use both xsane and scanimage as the same user? Otherwise there > > > may be permission problems. I only one version of SANE installed? > > > Otherwise xsane may use the other one. > > > > scanimage works, but only when run as root. When I try scanimage as a > > normal user I get the message: scanimage: no SANE devices found. This is > > similar to when I try to start xsane from KDE as normal user: xsane: no > > devices found. > > > > Note...sane and xsane are set up for anyone to execute, so not a > > permission problem. > > > > There is certainly only one copy of xsane running. To be certain I tried > > removing it with apt-get remove twice, (and also for sane on its own) and > > got nothing. > > > > I think this is part of the problem...when I try to start xsane as root, > > I get: > > > > debian:/home/barry# xsane > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server > > > > Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0 > > > > I'm out of my depth here. Is this a problem with permissions/access > > somewhere in X? (Don't forget, I was root when starting xsane from > > terminal.) Also the version of xsane I'm using is 0.84-2 from the Debian > > stable CDs. > > > > Many thanks for your help, > > Barry > > _______________________________________________ > > Sane-devel mailing list > > sane-de...@www.mostang.com > > http://www.mostang.com/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel
