On Thu November 27 2003 08:49 am, Donn aka n5xwb Washburn wrote:
Fergus Wilde wrote:
On Thursday 27 November 2003 01:15, Donn aka n5xwb Washburn wrote:
Hey Group;
What has SuSE 9.0 done to destroy all of my USB devices from working?
Not much, I should think. It seems unlikely that they had a planning meeting devoted to the destruction of your USB setup. It's more likely that something is misconfigured.
Type "/etc/init.d/sane start" and all that shows up is my TV/FM card as /dev/video0. /dev/video0 always shows up at bootup as changing permissions. However, never do my usb scanner or Palm device. Has anyone gotten all of their USB devices to work?
Thanks to all that offered suggestions!
I fixed the xsane usbscanner problem. It was the permissions in /etc/usb set on the usbscanner#s needed to be "chmod 666". However usb Palm device still fails with jpilot.
I guess it is thought of as a real serious security issue that someone on the net or a system user could use the scanner. However, it was ok to use the scanner as root. Oh yes! isn't working as root known as dangerous?. Go figure! Another case of "Permission" as a user headaches!
I believe when you select xsane on installation, there is a note to the effect that it can only be used as root. And they regret that situation and hope that it might be fixed in the future. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 11/27/03 09:28 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "The solution of this problem is trivial and is left as an exercise "for the reader."