On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 07:12 -0500, Gary Waters wrote: > On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 09:30 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > > A couple of things to look at... > > > > First, make sure you have the parallel port modules. (ppdev, lp, > > parport, parport_pc) I don't remember if all of htem are needed, or > > if you can get by with just the parport and lp modules. > > > > The second thing is that the default permissions for the parallel > > port does not allow access by a normal user. > > > > crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 0 Sep 19 23:35 /dev/lp0 > FWIW I had a Canoscan FB320P. I would have to change permissions on /dev/lp0 for each session I used it. I used scanimage -L as root and then as user to check if it was found. That model had too many I/O errors which caused it to stop mid scan requiring a power off/on cycle. Replaced it with a USB scanner. Much less hassles. -- Regards Simon
