[PLUG] Scanner - was Kooka Help

Richard C. Steffens rsteff at comcast.net
Mon Sep 17 21:38:20 UTC 2007


I tried reading the Kooka documentation, but didn't find anything
useful. I tried connecting with the KDE forums, but the password they
just sent me doesn't work!

I decided to try loading xsane using YaST. When I try to run it, I get
the following error message:

no devices available

Possible reasons:

...
3. The permissions for the device file do not allow you to use it - try
as root
...

I tried running xsane as root, and it works.

Earlier, I learned that the scanner appears to be associated with
/dev/sg0, which ls -l reports as:

crw-r----- 1 root disk 21, 0 2007-09-17 10:03 sg0

Is there something about those permissions I need to change to allow a
program running as a user to work?


-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens




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