I've done some searching around to find out why I can only use the scanner as root on a machine on which I've just installed SuSE 10.2 (i386). (Didn't have this problem under Fedora, though plenty of other problems that switching to SuSE solved.) I've found some older postings (latest is 10.0 vintage) with general advice about getting scanners configured. Some advise manual tweaking of settings in the /etc/sane.d files (which I've tried). Others say it's better to just bring up YaST and run the configuration from there (tried that, too). Neither worked. I can scan until the cows come home as root but a regular user account gets the dreaded "no devices found" error message. Amusingly, when I run xsane as a regular user and the "No devices available" dialog window pops up, there is a "Help" button; when I push it, I see "Possible reasons: ... the permissions for the device file do not allow you to use it - try as root"; then when I run xsane as root up pops "Warning. You try to run XSane as ROOT, that really is DANGEROUS!! Do not send any bug reports when you have any problem while running XSane as root: YOU ARE ALONE! ... [Cancel] ... [Continue at your own risk]." I've tried chmod on the /dev files, but that doesn't stick. I'm not surprised: I assume that the device files are set up on the fly, but I don't know how to control the permissions. Can I get a clue, please? I'm perfectly prepared to take some razzing about how easy it should have been for me to find this information on my own, but I really did try some googling, just didn't pick the right magic combination of keywords. Bonus question (I know, asking two questions in one post lowers the chance of getting an answer to either one, but I'll risk it): any way to get Linux to respond to the buttons on the front of the scanner (Canon CanoScan LIDE30)? Many thanks! -- Bob Kline http://www.rksystems.com mailto:bkline@rksystems.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org