Am Samstag, 1. April 2006 18:17 schrieb Roger Price: > Sorry if this is a FAQ, but I'd like to review the fix for a "scanner > problem" for which sane might be wrongly suspected. > > I have a Canon LiDE 20. I upgraded to SuSE 10.0, and installed a lot of > stuff. Now the scanner would only work for root - the users received "no > device found". I assumed that this was a scan device permissions problem, > and wasted a lot of time fiddling with device permissions. > > The solution in my case was to run /sbin/resmgr list and notice that > nothing authorised the Canon scanner. Since 10.0, SuSE have a new policy > for resmgr: if it isn't specifically authorized, it's forbidden. Read this > good news at http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Scanner_Setup_from_SUSE_Linux_10.0 > . > > For some reason I don't understand, YaST wasn't creating file > /etc/resmgr.conf.d/50-scanner.conf which sets up the resmgr permissions for > the scanner, so I created a file /etc/resmgr.conf.d/51-scanner.conf which > contains: > > # Allow access to Canon LiDE 20 > add usb:vendor=0x04a9,product=0x220d scanner > > Once resmgrd was restarted the scanner was available to the users. > > Best Regards, > Roger
Hello Roger you may find the fix for this problem on your box under '/usr/share/doc/packages/sane/sane-backends/plustek/Plustek-USB.txt'. In the rear part of this document the few steps to change USB-rights properly are described. Wolfram Heider
