Highly insecure, but I got Xsane to scan by changing=20 /etc/hotplug/usb/libusbscanner to set permissions at 0777 instead of=20 0660 (which is why the permissions were changing on me!).
Cory Cory Foy wrote: > Ok, I got it working completely. I'm on a 2.6 kernel, so this might hel= p=20 > someone. >=20 > The first problem was that I couldn't get sane-find-scanner to work.=20 > This is because libusb has to be installed before SANE. Using Gentoo, I= =20 > had to set the USE flags in /etc/make.conf to be aware of usb. Then I=20 > emerged libusb, then emerged XSANE (which emerged sane-backends). I=20 > modified the /etc/sane.d/dll.conf to only have plustek enabled and=20 > /etc/sane.d/plustek.conf to the settings for my scanner. >=20 > Once sane-find-scanner worked, I was able to see the scanner in=20 > scanimage -L under root. Looking at the output of it, I saw a line=20 > similar to: >=20 > [plustek] sane_get_devices (0xbfffe538, 0) > device `plustek:libusb:001:003' is a Canon N1240U/LiDE30 USB flatbed=20 > scanner >=20 > So I went over to /proc/bus/usb/001/003 (the last two taken from the=20 > scanimage output) and changed the permissions to 777. >=20 > I then verified that scanimage -L was working under non-root. Which it = was. >=20 > The problem now is that the permissions reset themselves fairly quickly= .=20 > I found a daemon that runs to keep the permissions set: >=20 > http://www.xena.uklinux.net/Linux/usb_perms.html >=20 > but haven't tried it yet. Will probably do that soon. >=20 > Thanks everyone for the advice! >=20 > Cory >=20 > Nobody Here wrote: >=20 >> I have the same scanner. Mine is found by sane-find-scanners , but=20 >> not by scanimage -L . >> I would try changing the device to auto. The docs I read said auto=20 >> usually works and it at least finds it with sane-find for me. If you=20 >> get it entirely working, I'll be interested in hearing about it. >> >> _________________________________________________________________ >> Sch=FCtzen Sie Ihren Posteingang vor unerw=FCnschten E-Mails.=20 >> http://www.msn.de/antispam/prevention/junkmailfilter Schlu=DF mit Spam= -=20 >> MSN hilft Ihnen hier weiter. >> >> >> >=20
