Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Peter Humphrey <prh@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] USB scanners and udev
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 08:51:18
Message-Id: 200703080849.56248.prh@gotadsl.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] USB scanners and udev by "Marcus D. Hanwell"
1 On Wednesday 07 March 2007 22:31:50 Marcus D. Hanwell wrote:
2
3 > I also have 99-libsane.rules owned by media-gfx/sane-backends-1.0.18-r2.
4 > This is the rules file which identifies the USB device as a scanner and
5 > sets the correct permissions so that is just works. Please try emerging
6 > it again and ensuring it is there.
7
8 I too have the same file, but I've now removed 92-scanner.rules and the
9 scanner is being detected. The significant change was to put
10 SANE_BACKENDS="epson" into /etc/make.conf and then remerge sane-backends.
11
12 > Then run udevstart to apply the rules.
13
14 I may have missed that step before.
15
16 Thanks all for the help in getting this problem fixed.
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20 Peter Humphrey
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