-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 29 November 2003 00:07, Bryan Anderson wrote: > > Yes, it's a parallel port scanner. You don't have to run > What did you do to make xsane find your scanner when logged in as a > normal user? Its usually a matter of finding the device 'file' in /dev, and changing its permissions or your permissions. [root@fastcat dev]# ll /dev/parport* crw-rw---- 1 root lp 99, 0 Sep 15 14:40 /dev/parport0 crw-rw---- 1 root lp 99, 1 Sep 15 14:40 /dev/parport1 crw-rw---- 1 root lp 99, 2 Sep 15 14:40 /dev/parport2 crw-rw---- 1 root lp 99, 3 Sep 15 14:40 /dev/parport3 crw-rw---- 1 root lp 99, 4 Sep 15 14:40 /dev/parport4 crw-rw---- 1 root lp 99, 5 Sep 15 14:40 /dev/parport5 crw-rw---- 1 root lp 99, 6 Sep 15 14:40 /dev/parport6 crw-rw---- 1 root lp 99, 7 Sep 15 14:40 /dev/parport7 [root@fastcat dev]# ll /dev/lp* crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 0 Sep 15 14:40 /dev/lp0 crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 1 Sep 15 14:40 /dev/lp1 crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 2 Sep 15 14:40 /dev/lp2 crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 3 Sep 15 14:40 /dev/lp3 First thing I would try is adding my user to the lp group. IIRC you may need to logout and log back in (not a reboot tho) to get the changed groupfulness available in whatever apps you are running the other apps from. - -Andy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/yD9NjKeDCxMJCTIRArzdAKCCRKGInK8rJGaQlMD2SqQYLtV8BACfQp3a YU6Ts5AG4U7ErTBUqszsdXE= =+4n2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
