I am trying to use my HP ScanJet 5200C scanner which is connected through USB. I am using sane to detect it and have installed xsane as a graphical frontend. When I run xsane I get the error message "no devices available". However when I run xsane as root I get a big warning message say this operation is DANGEROUS. Having skipped this warning I was able to scan a document. Was wondering what I need to do to make xsane work without root access?
P.S. After running xsane as root my chromium browser tells me that it cannot access preferences on startup.
Code:
max@max-desktop:/$ lsusb
Bus 005 Device 003: ID 03f0:0401 Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 5200c
...
Code:
max@max-desktop:/$ sane-find-scanner
# sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the
# result is different from what you expected, first make sure your
# scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer.
# No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that
# you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.
found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0, product=0x0401) at libusb:005:003
# Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by
# SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.
# Not checking for parallel port scanners.
# Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports
# can't be detected by this program.
# You may want to run this program as root to find all devices. Once you
# found the scanner devices, be sure to adjust access permissions as
# necessary.
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