Elizabeth Bevilacqua on 24 Aug 2007 19:40:49 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] More Freespire oddness


On 8/24/07, Adam J. Zion <azion1995@verizon.net> wrote:
> OK, I fixed the video problem w/an uninstall/reinstall of the video player. Now, though, I get an odd result w/the scanner. I can scan only if I start xsane as root, + even then I get errors. When I try to scan as myself, xsane tells me it can't find a scanner. This, despite the fact that sane-find-scanner *does* discover a scanner, + lsusb lists the scanner on the usb bus.
>
> Thoughts?

The last time I saw this sort of thing happen it was a group problem.
Check /etc/group and see if your user is in the "scan" or "scanner"
group. If not, add the user, log out and log back in again, then try.

HTH

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