Sarge - scanner available only for root

[gabriel_007]

Hello
My scanner is Mustek Bear Paw 1200 (it's an old scanner)
It is available only for root.

I followed some advice, to add scanner information into my plustek file manually -
after doing
sane-find-scanner, which displayed

found USB scanner (vendor=0x0400 [National Semiconductor], product=0x1000 [Merlin Scanner], chip=LM9831) at libusb:003:003

after scanimage -L i got

device `plustek:libusb:003:003' is a Mustek BearPaw 1200 USB flatbed scanner

I changed two lines in my etc/sane.d/plustek.conf
to

[usb](0x0400) (0x1000)
device libusb:003:003

(my user had the scanner group of course) and it's still not working for my normal user.
Did I do anything wrong?
Thank you very much for your help in advance

[engineuity]

I had this problem with my scanner...never fixed it but I think its a permissions problem on the device. Never looked into fixing the problem, but if you can change those permissions, you should be able to use it under another user/group other than root.

[gabriel_007]

You mean change permission to a file in the /dev/usb catalog?
How do I find out which one is it? Sorry if question is stupid
Thanks

[Marsolin]

You could try adding the scanner group to your uid. If you are using KDE load KUser, find your username, select the edit icon, the Groups tab, and check the scanner entry.

I haven't tried using a scanner, so I'm not sure if this will work, but it's worth a try.

[engineuity]

For the device shows up in /dev/... I think mknod sets up the device link and the permissions. I dont know when the scanner would be setup in the kernel, but if you can track that down you can try to fiddle with the settings.

[gabriel_007]

Ok, I did it
Turns out I simply made an error in the file, and the thing I was doing was right...
Sorry guys for taking your time and thanks