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[cdoerbec at cso.fmr.com (Christoph Doerbeck A242369)]

Christoph Doerbeck A242369 wrote:
> 
> "James R. Van Zandt" wrote:
> > 
> > I am trying to get a new HP 6200C scanner running under Linux.
> > 
> >    crw-------   1 root     sys       21,   0 May 27  1997 /dev/sg0
> >    crw-------   1 root     sys       21,   1 May 27  1997 /dev/sg1
> >    crw-------   1 root     sys       21,   2 May 27  1997 /dev/sg2
> >    crw-------   1 root     sys       21,   3 May 27  1997 /dev/sg3
> >    crw-------   1 root     sys       21,   4 May 27  1997 /dev/sg4
> >    crw-------   1 root     sys       21,   5 May 27  1997 /dev/sg5
> >    crw-------   1 root     sys       21,   6 May 27  1997 /dev/sg6
> >    crw-------   1 root     sys       21,   7 May 27  1997 /dev/sg7
> >    
> >    lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root            8 Apr 22 21:07 scanner -> /dev/s
> g1
> >
> > What am I missing?
> > 
> 
> I notice that non of your /dev/sg? devices have user accessible read/write.
> If you're not running scanimage as root, it won't find your scanner.
> 
> chmod 666 /dev/sg0
> 

Doh!  I meant `chmod 666 /dev/sg1`

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