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"James R. Van Zandt" wrote:
> 
> I am trying to get a new HP 6200C scanner running under Linux.
> 
>    crw-------   1 root     sys       21,   0 May 27  1997 /dev/sg0
>    crw-------   1 root     sys       21,   1 May 27  1997 /dev/sg1
>    crw-------   1 root     sys       21,   2 May 27  1997 /dev/sg2
>    crw-------   1 root     sys       21,   3 May 27  1997 /dev/sg3
>    crw-------   1 root     sys       21,   4 May 27  1997 /dev/sg4
>    crw-------   1 root     sys       21,   5 May 27  1997 /dev/sg5
>    crw-------   1 root     sys       21,   6 May 27  1997 /dev/sg6
>    crw-------   1 root     sys       21,   7 May 27  1997 /dev/sg7
>    
>    lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root            8 Apr 22 21:07 scanner -> /dev/sg1
>
> What am I missing?
> 

I notice that non of your /dev/sg? devices have user accessible read/write.
If you're not running scanimage as root, it won't find your scanner.

chmod 666 /dev/sg0



- Christoph


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