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[jrv at vanzandt.mv.com (James R. Van Zandt)]

Christoph Doerbeck A242369 <cdoerbec at cso.fmr.com> wrote
>"James R. Van Zandt" wrote:
>> I am trying to get a new HP 6200C scanner running under Linux.

>I notice that non of your /dev/sg? devices have user accessible read/write.

Yes, I noticed that:

>> The devices look okay (at least for root access):
                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>    poet:/tmp# ls -l /dev/sg?
>>    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
...

>If you're not running scanimage as root, it won't find your scanner.

But I *was* running it as root:

>>    poet:/dev# scanimage -L;
               ^
>>    device `pnm:0' is a Noname PNM file reader virtual device
>>    device `pnm:1' is a Noname PNM file reader virtual device

		    - Jim Van Zandt
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