Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > It would appear that on Sep 4, joegum did say: > > Oops.... I guess I wasn't clear. I Xandros, my usb scanner was > detected, but not supported by sane. In FC2, it's not detected. > Thank you for the link. I'm going to follow-up on your suggestion as > well as the other suggestions I've been getting. Even if I can't get > the scanner running, I'm no worse off than under Xandros. > > I'll say this, too. I really don't think newbie should be intimidated > by Fedora. It's a very usable and functional OS with world class > support from this forum. > > > Not detected?... Did you try this as root? Do you have the right sane > backend configured? > > With FC2 there is a known problem that stops non-root users from > getting > the right permissions on the usb bus. There have been several good > explanations (check the archives) but in my case (once I found out how > to configure sane (including getting a required file from the scanners > windows driver disk) [I'm using a cheap memorex scanner] I still had > to > fix the bus permission settings before it would work for a non-root > user. > > I had to poke around to find that my mount point was > /proc/bus/usb/001/002 > (yours might be different) Then I had to (with root permissions) > execute: > "chmod 666 /proc/bus/usb/001/002" before kooka would detect the > scanner > for a normal user accounts. > > The annoying thing is that I have to do this again after every reboot. > I sure hope they fix that for FC3. Because remembering to run the > /root/bin/fixscan script I put that chmod command in, BEFORE starting > kooka > is a small pain. But it's much better than having to boot windows to > use > the scanner... It seems that my scanner isn't supported at all by SANE. (HP 3400c). Thanks for the tip, though. I'll file it for future memory. -Joe G.
