Canon MP250 Scanner/Printer

[Thomas Milne]

No difference running as root.

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 1:48 AM, Tyler Aviss <tjaviss-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> How about if you run it as root. Long ago and still possibly now there
> were issues with scanners and device permissions, or in some cases
> stuff needed to be mounted in /proc/vus/usb and accessible to your
> user
>
> On 2/6/10, Thomas Milne <tbrucemilne-TcoXwbchSccMMYnvST3LeUB+6BGkLq7r at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> I've got the printer part working with the drivers from Canon, and I
>> also installed the scanning drivers from the same source. When I run
>> sane-find-scanner, I get:
>>
>> found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9, product=0x173a) at libusb:001:013
>>
>> But when I run scanimage -L, I get 'No scanners were identified', and
>> running xsane just gives me 'no devices found' and on dialogue.
>>
>> I did some googling, but most of the solutions are kinda old or don't
>> seem to apply. It's my first time trying to configure a scanner, so I
>> don't even know where to begin, and I don't want to start flailing in
>> the dark and make things worse.
>>
>> Any hints?
>>
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