Running Fedora8 64-bit, xsane cannot access my USB scanner when invoked
as a mortal user. The "scanning for devices" pop-up appears and persists
without finding anything until I kill it manually. Curiously,
sane-find-scanner has no problem finding the device when run as a
mortal user:
[john@lancre ~]$ sane-find-scanner
# sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the
# result is different from what you expected, first make sure your
# scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer.
# No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make
# sure that you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI
# adapter.
found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x0101
[Perfection636]) at libusb:001:009
# Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be
# supported by SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.
"scanimage -L" run as a mortal user does not find anything, but run as
root it does:
[root@lancre ~]# scanimage -L
device `epson:libusb:001:009' is a Epson Perfection636 flatbed scanner
device `net:localhost:epson:libusb:001:009' is a Epson Perfection636
flatbed scanner
If explicitly I tell scanimage to use the sane-epson backend ("scanimage
-d epson" or setting "SANE_DEFAULT_DEVICE=epson"), it can operate the
scanner even as a mortal user, but xsane still cannot find it even with
"SANE_DEFAULT_DEVICE=epson" set. I have not managed to connect to the
network device at all using either scanimage or xsane, but I can telnet
into port 6566 so xinetd seems to be launching saned:
[john@lancre ~]$ telnet localhost 6566
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
[root@lancre ~]# ps aux|grep saned
saned 25183 0.0 0.0 32544 960 ? Ss 16:30 0:00 saned
root 25189 0.0 0.0 6052 580 pts/3 S+ 16:30 0:00 grep saned
How can I fix this so I can run xsane as a mortal user again?
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John (john@xxxxxxxxxxx)
