Comment 16 for bug 29050
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| Neil Woolford (neil-neilwoolford) wrote Re: 6.04 (Dapper) doesn't recognize working printer | #16 |
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Thank you RoX!
If I make the suggested change of /dev/usblp0 from scanner to root, my Epson CX3200 scanner/printer is detected by the gui Add Printer system. It prints a test page, and is still recognised by XSane as a working scanner.
The goodness doesn't survive a reboot of course; although the printer is still listed as installed it is now back in the scanner group and so won't print until the manual change is made again.
My naive take on this is that the problem is the multi-function device identifying as only one of its functions and therefore ending up in a restrictive group. Thus gnome-cups-manager and gutenprint drivers are innocent. The problem perhaps lies in udev/hal magic that I do not understand...
Surely there should be a witty t-shirt for *nix people with a slogan on the lines of "It's always a file permissions/groups problem...". But witty of course, rather than just descriptive ;)
Neil