On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Vic Landry wrote: >I have a Umax 1220S scanner using an Adaptec 2940 card & I'm trying >to run Xsane when I'm logged in as a user. I get an error message >that says there is no device. When logged in as root, I can run >Xsane after the cautionary message about running Xsane under root >causing the apocalypse. How do I recognise the device in user? > Vic,
I'm going to chime in here with a guess, but this sounds like a file protection issue; I've seen similar with sound and /dev/dsp. As root, you might try a "chmod 666 /dev/????" on the scsi device driver for the scanner (maybe /dev/sga) and see if that help. Beyond that, it looks like Xsane has an environment variable that points to the device to be used (SANE_DEFAULT_DEVICE); you might make sure that's set correctly. Hope that helps... -- Kind regards, Ric [ Alaric S. Haag, Computer Manager mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ Coastal Studies Institute - Earth Scan Lab Voice: (225) 578-6438 ] [ Louisiana State University FAX: (225) 578-2520 ] [ Baton Rouge, LA 70803 http://www.esl.lsu.edu ] ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
