Canon fb330 scaner

[gabbman]

From the control panel I set up my scaner, no problems noted.

When I launch xsane from the Start Menu > Mutimedia > Graphics > Xsane, it does not work.

When I open the shell as su, and type xsane, it works.

How do I change the permission in the menu?

 

TIA

[gabbman]

The problem is that the SANE driver for your scanner accesses the parallel port directly, without use of the kernel. Such way of device access is only possible for root. Due to the kernel not being used there is no special file in /dev or /proc which represents scanner and whose permissions can be opened for normal users.

 

Can you try the following:

 

1. Install saned, to do so, get root and then enter

 

urpmi saned

 

or use rpmdrake. Stay root for the next steps.

 

2. Edit /etc/xinetd.d/saned replacing the lines

 

user = saned

group = saned

 

by

 

user = root

group = root

 

3. Restart xinetd with

 

service xinetd restart

 

4. Start Scannerdrake

 

scannerdrake

 

and click on "Scanner sharing". Mark "The scanners on this machine are available to other computers" and "Use scanners on remote computers". Click on "Scanner sharing to hosts" and in the next window on "Add host". Then choose "Name/IP address of host:" and type "localhost" in the input line. Click "OK" and "Done". Now click "Use scanners on hosts: ..." and in the dialog appearing "Add host". In the next window choose "This machine" and click "OK". Click "Done" to get back into the "Scanner sharing" and "OK" to get back into the main window of Scannerdrake. Now you can close Scannerdrake.

 

5. Run X-Sane as normal user and you should be able to scan.

 

Worked for me, and I might add this is the first linux distro that runs my 'unsuported in linux by canon' scaner.

 

Mandrake Rulz :)

[Guest Kamikaze_Gerbil]

Doh! Now I dont even have the scanner when I'm root. :shock: