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Author Topic: [EN] Can't get scanner to work.  (Read 7821 times)

Offline vilde

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[EN] Re: Can't get scanner to work.
« Reply #15 on: 2018/11/13, 14:53:46 »
I did some search and found this, https://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1565846.html. I tried the
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I don't know if this is too late, but I ran
 
 lsusb
 
 and found that my Brother MFC 7420 is at bus 007 device 002.  Then
 
 chmod a+w /dev/bus/usb/007/002
 
 and now xsane works as a normal user.  I don't have to be root.
 
 Hope this helps
part but the numbers where in the wrong order i did
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chmod a+w /dev/bus/usb/002/007As usual I don't know what I'm doing but now it works as user :)


 
« Last Edit: 2018/11/13, 14:57:12 by vilde »

Offline drb

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Re: Can't get scanner to work.
« Reply #16 on: 2018/11/13, 14:58:15 »
I'm usually just happy when things work as I don't always know what I'm doing either! Well done!