First thank you for the reply. I did the command as you stated and replaced the sgO with sg1 as Xsane stated
(I assume that when xsane says brother:bus4;devl, that would be sg1). I get the following error:
device not found in database
udevinfo: option requires an argument -- p
I am new to Fedora and any help is greatly appreciated. John
On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 11:51 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 20:32 -0700, John Pearson wrote:
> > I am trying to setup my scanner which is a Brother MFC 8440 laser
> > printer/scanner/copier/fax.
> > I can use the scanner as root but not as a general user. It works
fine in Kooka and Xsane but only as root. How do I get permission as a
> > general user. It works fine as a printer as a general user.
> You’ll need to find out the device name the scanner is using when you
> use it as root. Typically this will be /dev/sgO or /dev/sgl. If you use
> Xsane it should tell you the device itv5 using when it’s detected it.
> Then, run the following command to get some information about the scanner:
> # udevinfo -a -p $ (udevinfo -q path -n /dev/sgO)
> (replace sgO with the device name if your scanner if it’s different)
> Post the result back here and we’ll take it from there.
> Paul.
> --
> Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
