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It would appear that on May 29, Gerry Tool did say to Ted Gervais:
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> As root, execute
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> chmod a+w /proc/bus/usb/001/002
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> Unfortunately, until a bug is fixed, you will have to do this each time you
> reboot. Note the digits are specific to your system as determined by
> executing scanimage as you did.
>
> Hope this gets it working.
I've only just started to try to get sane working for my scanner.
I started with man sane... Eventually I found out about the vendor file
required for my scanner. Then With the exceptions {listed below}, root
could scan...
Now thanks to your advice to Ted, I can now scan as user... Because of the
bug you mentioned I just put a script in /root/bin/fixscan that consists of a
single chmod command... Works for me! Thanks.
Note: due to the exceptions {listed below} which now also applied to my
user login, I kept reading the man docs, I found in man sane-usb a
reference to an /etc/fstab line that was supposed to let ALL users
access the scanner...
"none /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults,devmode=0666 0 0"
This didn't work! presumably thats because of the bug you mentioned?
OK the exceptions: [assume inches]
I was using a test page that consisted of an 8 1/2 x 11 glossy sheet
with some hand writing above and below a printed photo that took up
about 1/2 the sheet of paper.
With:
scanimage --format tiff >tst.tiff
I got a tiff file with a picture of the the top left corner (aprox 2 x 2)
of the sheet.
With xsane I get the same image scan area.
Yet kooka gives me the whole 8 1/2 x 11 page.
I think I like kooka better than the windows scan panel Memorex thinks
I'm using, so that parts good. (Except for an error message I don't
understand) But I'd like to be able to scan from the command line...
Below is pasted some konole output that may mean more to you than to me.
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jtwdyp -> /home/jtwdyp/.kde/share/apps/ScanImages
> xsane
jtwdyp -> /home/jtwdyp/.kde/share/apps/ScanImages
> kooka
QLayout: Adding QComboBox/PREVIEWFORMATCOMBO (child of QVButtonGroup/unnamed) to layout for Previewer/unnamed
QObject::connect: Cannot connect (null)::guiChange(KScanOption*) to ScanParams::slOptionNotify(KScanOption*)
jtwdyp -> /home/jtwdyp/.kde/share/apps/ScanImages
> scanimage -L
device `artec_eplus48u:libusb:001:002' is a Memorex MEM 48U USB flatbed scanner
jtwdyp -> /home/jtwdyp/.kde/share/apps/ScanImages
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How would I get scanimage and/or xsane to scan the whole page?
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