On 2008-03-08, John Thompson <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 [yada, yada...] > found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x0101 > [Perfection636]) at libusb:001:009 Problem solved by editing /etc/sane.d/epson.conf and explicitly providing the usb <vendor ID> and <product ID> provided by "sane-find-scanner," e.g.: usb 0x04b8 0x0101 -- John (john@xxxxxxxxxxx)
