Ubuntu
sane-backends package

  1. Bug #8241
  2. Comment #21

Comment 21 for bug 8241

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Joe Hester (joeh-midsouth) wrote :

(In reply to comment #10)
> /etc/hotplug/usb/libusbscanner does this for us already. The only problem is
> that users are not in the scanner group. Should we add default users to the
> scanner group? Should we change the group in this file to the video group?
> mdz: what is your opinion?

I have an Epson 2400 scanner and I had to modify /etc/hotplug/usb/libusbscanner
to make it work as a user in the scanner group.

Changed the line:
  DEV=`expr $DEV + 1`
to
  DEV=`expr $DEV - 1`
and it works fine now.

I don't know if this is a bug or just a fix for me.