-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2007-06-09 at 08:00 -0400, Bob Kline wrote:
Well, I'm heeding as well as I know how. In this case, his advice was a single sentence:
If you let it get autodetected and configured by YAST, then it the permissions should be set up correctly.
So I replied explaining that I thought that's what I had done, and I went on to describe exactly what I was doing, hoping someone would spot and point out to me whatever boneheaded mistake I had made. Here's my reply:
You should simply reply always to the list, which he scans (pun intended ;-) )
Well, I thought I had done that (as indicated above), but perhaps what I did and "let it get autodetected and configured by YAST" aren't exactly the same things. I log into the machine as root, run yast2, click on Hardware, then Scanners, and I see it run through an unattended checklist ending with "Detecting USB and SCSI scanners" after which it shows a line with "plustek Canon N1240U/LiDE30 at plustek:libusb:007:002". If I click on Other ...
Isn't that your scanner?
Restart Detection I end up with the same display.
Then your scanner is reporting itself that way. You can check with "usbview".
If I click Other ... Test I hear the hardware make some noises and a bunch of tests are listed and all marked as OK. If I then log
I assume you accepted yast proposal. :-?
into the machine as a normal user and run xsane I end up with the "No devices available" message. Am I missing a step in YAST?
Can anyone tell me where the gap is between what I am doing in YaST and what Mr. Meissner is advising me to do? Is there some other package on which all of this relies that everyone's assuming I have (but don't)? For example, earlier in the thread I pointed out the discrepancy between a FAQ document some other poster had directed me to and my configuration: I noted that the FAQ says that SANE "... comes with a hotplug script and related documentation ..." but I can't find any such script or documentation in any of the three packages installed on the machine which have "sane" in the package name.
Linux is a moving target, and things change, sometimes a lot. If that script does not exist, it means that things are done diferently, by SuSE, or nowdays. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGaprAtTMYHG2NR9URAg93AJ9QpQ/Y7J0QxyGRR0DxIWQ09wV0xACfZkDI nIboPKB/CWMqTgQAgtSUa4k= =qOoE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org