On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 06:23, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: > On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 15:43:49 +0700 > Philippe <phd2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 15:29, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: > > > On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 15:15:30 +0700 > > > Philippe <phd2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Hi Steven, > > > > > > > > Try this as root : > > > > > sane-find-scanner says the following: > > > > > found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x011b [EPSON > > > > > Scanner]) at libusb:001:006 > > > > > > > > chmod 0666 /proc/bus/usb/001/006 > > > > > > > > (coming from libusb:001:006) > > Hello, Philippe :) > There is only one thing worse than the issues that I have had with this > scanner..... That is the fact that I am not completely certain what I > did to fix it. But I know that it now works :) I did read the README > in the hotplug/tools directory and followed the directions. I tried > switching to runlevel 1 and then back to runlevel 5, but it still > wouldn't work. I rebooted :(, but now all is well :) Well, almost - > The only graphical program that I can scan with is Kooka. I can't scan > from xscanimage, The GIMP, or OpenOffice.org. But, I will start a new > thread about that. > > Thanks to everyone who even made an attempt to help me :) > Steven P. Ulrick > 99.999999% likely that the permissions fixed it, I have never had to do anything else to get any scanner working since Redhat 7.2. An initscript to do a chmod 0666 /proc/bus/usb/0* Ted
