[hardy regression] No scanner support (Kooka)

[na5m]

The Hardy installation goes without a hitch. Got all of the updates, too. But when I plug in my Epson Perfection 1650 USB flatbed scanner, Hardy Heron doesn't acknowledge it. At all. Also, Kooka tells me that "No Scanner Was Found. Your System Does Not Provide a SANE installation. Please Install and Configure SANE correctly on your system." I was hoping for out-of-the-box scanner functionality. Hoping a solution is in the works :)

Hardy Heron Kubuntu alpha 2 i386
HP Pavilion laptop dv9640us
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS
Dual Centrino processor
4GB ram
2 150GB hard drives

[naught101 (naught101)]

Kooka does not work for me (same SANE problem), even though all of it's prerequisites are installed.

Worked fine in Gutsy. this is a regression

[naught101 (naught101)]

I should have mentioned that I have a Mustek 1200UBplus, which is recognised fine by kooka as a "Mustek BearPaw 1200 CU". this is the same as gutsy.

I'm using an up to date version of hardy.

[naught101 (naught101)]

Similar problem in Gimp, using xsane: Scanner is acknowledged to exist, but when i try to "aquire" from it, I get the error:

"Failed to open device ` gt68:libusb:001:002':
  Invalid argument."

[naught101 (naught101)]

Installed firmware from http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/gt68xx-backend/ now works

[MatthiasHeil (webmaster-heilmile)]

Adding rights to your user in Authorizations - and rebooting - solved the problem for my Epson Perfection 1650 - see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xsane/+bug/205496

[Christian Mangold (neversfelde)]

I can confirm this, too. On latest hardy my HP 1510 PSC is not detected in kooka.

[naught101 (naught101)]

Matthais: yeah, I also had to add "scanner" to my users groups, however, udev creates the scanner device with the owner:group root:root, when it should have been "root:scanner".

The solution is to add your user to the scanner group, then find what bus your USB scanner is on with "lsusb" (you get a number like 002:004), then

sudo chown root:scanner /dev/bus/usb/002/004 (or what ever the numbers are)

I have to do this every time I plug in the scanner, or turn on the computer.

[danuel (ddarvish-hibm)]

Yes, I agree. Scanner problem in Hardy.