Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: "Marcus D. Hanwell" <cryos@g.o>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] USB scanners and udev
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 22:36:26
Message-Id: 200703072231.55490.cryos@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] USB scanners and udev by David Fellows
1 On Wednesday 07 March 2007 13:35:57 David Fellows wrote:
2 > > $ ls /etc/udev/rules.d
3 > > 05-udev-early.rules 60-vmware.rules
4 > > 75-persistent-net-generator.rules 99-libsane.rules
5 > > 50-udev.rules 70-persistent-cd.rules
6 > > 92-scanner.rules 60-persistent-input.rules 70-persistent-net.rules
7 > > 95-net.rules 60-persistent-storage.rules
8 > > 75-cd-aliases-generator.rules
9 > > 99-libgphoto2.rules
10 > >
11 > > Rather more than your system, it seems!
12 >
13 > On my system I have /etc/udev/rules.d/99-libsane.rules which belongs to
14 > media-gfx/sane-backends-1.0.18-r2.
15 >
16 > I emerged xsane, sane-backends and sane-frontends and except for adding
17 > myself to the scanner group it "just worked". I have an Epson 1650 scanner.
18 > I don't use it much.
19 >
20 > Perhaps re-emerging the sane packages would clean things up.
21 >
22 I also have 99-libsane.rules owned by media-gfx/sane-backends-1.0.18-r2. This
23 is the rules file which identifies the USB device as a scanner and sets the
24 correct permissions so that is just works. Please try emerging it again and
25 ensuring it is there.
26
27 Then run udevstart to apply the rules.
28
29 Marcus

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] USB scanners and udev Peter Humphrey <prh@××××××××××.uk>