[sane-devel] No devices available

[Thomas Soumarmon]

The device you try to connect to should be accessible by the user who runs 
scanimage, xscanimage, xsane, etc...
do a 
ls -al /dev/scanner
and
ls -al /dev/sg1
to check that "other users" are allowed to read and write the device. If not, 
use
chmod 766 /dev/sg1
chmod 766 /dev/scanner
to grant read-write access to all users to those devices.
 

The other problem (connecting to display: :0.0) looks like a permissioning 
issue under X. 
You could change the DISPLAY environment variable before trying to run 
xscanimage with root to set it to another display ?



 
Le Lundi 13 Janvier 2003 05:05, Barry Kirsten a écrit :
> Hi Henning,
>
> On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 08:15, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote:
> > Well, what does happen when you try to scan? Try scanimage >image.pnm.
> > If that doesn't work, set the debug variable. Do the same for xsane.
> > Do you use both xsane and scanimage as the same user? Otherwise there
> > may be permission problems. I only one version of SANE installed?
> > Otherwise xsane may use the other one.
>
> scanimage works, but only when run as root. When I try scanimage as a
> normal user I get the message: scanimage: no SANE devices found. This is
> similar to when I try to start xsane from KDE as normal user: xsane: no
> devices found.
>
> Note...sane and xsane are set up for anyone to execute, so not a permission
> problem.
>
> There is certainly only one copy of xsane running. To be certain I tried
> removing it with apt-get remove twice, (and also for sane on its own) and
> got nothing.
>
> I think this is part of the problem...when I try to start xsane as root, I
> get:
>
> debian:/home/barry# xsane
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
>
> Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0
>
> I'm out of my depth here. Is this a problem with permissions/access
> somewhere in X? (Don't forget, I was root when starting xsane from
> terminal.) Also the version of xsane I'm using is 0.84-2 from the Debian
> stable CDs.
>
> Many thanks for your help,
> Barry
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