Can't get scanner to work.

[vilde]

I did some search and found this, https://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1565846.html. I tried the

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/002/007
As usual I don't know what I'm doing but now it works as user

[drb]

I'm usually just happy when things work as I don't always know what I'm doing either! Well done!