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Neil Stone writes: > jon.davey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> Hi everyone. I noticed that there was a thread about sane and scanners here >> recently so if I'm going over old ground can someone point me to those >> threads. >> I'm running Ubuntu and am trying to get my scanner working. I have installed >> SANE and the drivers for the scanner/printer but when I try to use Xsane it >> says it can't find a scanner. What should I do? >> Cheers, JOn > Ensure that you're added to the scanner and lp groups.. gets me every time.. > try running, as root initially; > scanimage -l > (lower case L), should list the available devices.. > then as the 'user', probably find that it'll work as root, not as user.. > Add self to groups, log out, log in, try again.. > failing that, drop in to IRC and we'll see what we can do to help.. > Neil "Flash" ...tries that, I get; jon@jon-laptop:~$ sudo su [sudo] password for jon: root@jon-laptop:/home/jon# scanimage -l scanimage: no SANE devices found root@jon-laptop:/home/jon# .... -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html