On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 21:04:48 -0500 (EST) fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Am So, den 28.11.2004 schrieb Nathan Low um 23:59: > > > > > >>I entered xsane and pressed enter then I clicked the > >>agreement for accept. It didn't detect my scanner. > > > > > > My crystal ball has actually a blind point where your scanner hardware > > should appear. > > > Surely, you jest! ;-) > > That brings up a question about devices, though. > > My scanner is a Umax 1200S SCSI machine that appears at /dev/sg0. This > device comes equipped with permissions set to (I believe) 644 following > a boot. This means that I must either don my root cape or change the > permissions to 666 to use xsane. I would really like to know the > *proper* way to set the permissions for that device. I stuck a line in > /etc/rc.d/rc.local that reads "chmod 666 /dev/sg* &" but I would bet > there's a correct way to do it. I don't know that it may be proper but you can change the permissions in: /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions Look for sg in scsi area. -- Richard E Miles Federal Way WA. registered linux user 46097
