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On 30 Oct, Helmut Jarausch wrote: |
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> After a long search on the net I've found out |
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> that the permissions of the usb device are set wrong |
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> (root.usb) |
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> It looks like an UDEV rule installed by sane-backends |
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> sets the user to root and the group to usb. |
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> With these settings CUPS won't recognize/use the printer. |
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> I had to add the following rule to /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules |
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> (e.g.) |
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> ATTR{idVendor}=="0482", ATTR{idProduct}=="0015", MODE:="0777", |
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> GROUP:="lp", USER:="lp", ENV{libsane_matched}:="yes" |
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this must be OWNER:="lp" |
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of course. |
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> where one has to vary the idVendor and idProduct, of course. |
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> Even for a casual Gentoo user that's neither trivial nor comfortable. |
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> If the printer breaks sometime one has to remember to change that rule. |
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> And it wasn't easy to find that advice. |
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> Where should I report a bug to ? |
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> To |
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> net-print/cups |
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> or |
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> media-gfx/sane-backends |
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> or where else? |
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> Thanks for your help, |
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> Helmut. |
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Helmut Jarausch |
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Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik |
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RWTH - Aachen University |
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D 52056 Aachen, Germany |
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