Hello,
On May 8 12:15 tom wrote (excerpt):
... does not work for me with out root permissions ...
In particular when you alone use your own scanner
connected to your own computer (i.e. when you do
not need to care very much about other persons in
a multi-user environment who should be
Check your installation, specifically
/lib/udev/rules.d, which takes precedence over
/etc/udev/rules.d.
You might have something left over from previous
frontends installations, like I did, not so long
ago. Linux long installed tends to accumulate
cruft, like any other system.
On 08/05/16
Add your user to the scanner group.
/etc/group|grep scan
-- scanner:x:104:
++ scanner:x:104:roger
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Roger
http://rogerx.freeshell.org/
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You need to set the permissions of the device file when it is created
by the OS. Different distros handle this in different ways, so I
cannot give you any Mint specific instructions. Generally, you will
look for udev or hal rules or hwdb files, and modify them. My distro
sets up permissions for
xsane 0.998 does not work for me with out root permissions. I found many
accounts of this on many scanners and many Distros. I have gone thru a
laundry list of changing ownership, permissions, etc. The problem is
reported with both USB and parallel scanners. Seems to me that maybe
xsane is
