sane, libusb, and permissions

[SQuIDers]

So here is the situation:

Distro: Slack 10.2
kernel 2.6 compiled by me
sane-backends:i also compliled it (1.0.16) beacuse i needed to upgrade its source files with the new plustek (0.50) source files that support my scanner.

As root:

root@squidov:~# scanimage -L
device `plustek:libusb:003:004' is a Canon LiDE25 USB flatbed scanner

that`s ok


i`ve copied the files "libusbscanner" and "libsane.usermap" to /etc/hotplug/usb.

I`ve tested the "libusbscanner" script by unplgugging and plugging back in my scanner several times. The script does its job.

root@squidov:/proc/bus/usb/003# ls -al
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x  2 root root     0 2006-05-11 13:28 ./
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root     0 2006-05-11 15:28 ../
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    43 2006-05-11 13:28 001
-rw-rw----  1 root scanner 57 2006-05-11 14:04 004

I`ve added my username to the group "scanner", but here is what i get after the command "scanimage -L"

squiders@squidov:/etc/hotplug/usb$ scanimage -L

No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,
check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the
sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation
which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).

again as root (to check if the "libusbscanner" script messed something up:

root@squidov:~# scanimage -L
device `plustek:libusb:003:004' is a Canon LiDE25 USB flatbed scanner

So, the script does what it should, and still i dont have permissions to the scanner?
wtf?

I`ve also scanned one image as root from the console "scanimage >test.png", and it worked as i thought, but i need full functionality of some of the available GUI-s, and i don`t want to start KDE as root....

Does anyone have any idea what the problem might be? the scanner is the only thing that i`ve left unconfigured

[kahoona]

When you are logged in as your own user ID, can 'cd' into this directory and see all these files?:

root@squidov:/proc/bus/usb/003# ls -al
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2006-05-11 13:28 ./
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 0 2006-05-11 15:28 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 43 2006-05-11 13:28 001
-rw-rw---- 1 root scanner 57 2006-05-11 14:04 004

Perphaps you don't have permission to get into that directory as yourself. If you can get in, try changing the permissions so that the world can rw to your scanner "chmod o+rw ./004".

[SQuIDers]

yeah, i could enter it

squiders@squidov:/proc/bus/usb/003$ ls -al
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x  2 root root  0 2006-05-12 00:15 ./
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root  0 2006-05-12 02:15 ../
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 43 2006-05-12 00:15 001
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 57 2006-05-12 00:15 002
-rw-rw-rw-  1 root root 52 2006-05-12 00:15 003

now lets try with these permissions

squiders@squidov:~$ scanimage -d plustek:libusb:003:003 > test.png
scanimage: open of device plustek:libusb:003:003 failed: Error during device I/O

No matter, i`ve followed a mini howto (which i can`t find now).

basically it explained to use saned (a daemon that is started via inted). The saned has root privileges in inetd, but its configured only to take requests from "localhost"...

it will do untill i figure this thing out...