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szajskerl

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Registered: 2008-03-23

Posts: 13

hp f380 scanner doesn't work for normal user

I have a problem concerning my scanner. It works well (after few issues after the upgrade of hplip) under root, yet it does not work under user. It would work for half a year but after one of lasts upgrades it does not any more. My user is added to scanner group of course.

kjon

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From: Temuco, Chile

Registered: 2008-04-16

Posts: 398

Re: hp f380 scanner doesn't work for normal user

simple. I got similar issues with my cx3900 all-in-one.
What I did is to create a udev rule to force the related devices to be owned to specific group.

For instance

/etc/udev/rules.d/goddamned_scanner.rules

ACTION=="add", BUS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="Vendor", ATTRS{idProduct}=="Product", MODE:="0660", GROUP:="scanner"

Note the ':=' on the GROUP and MODE field.
replace Vendor and Product by the information supplied by the output of lsusb (vendor:product) and reload the udev ruleset with:

udevadm command --reload-rules

Last edited by kjon (2009-02-28 16:00:51)

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