I just discovered that my scanner doesn't work with the Linux kernel
2.6.4. It was most unpleasant to find out that scanner.c was gone.
A bit of googling around and it turns out that the file is obsolete.
To setup Sane properly, you need to have the following line in the
file epson.conf (that is, if you have an epson scanner):
usb
Make sure you have libusb installed. Next unpleasant surprise only
root can access the scanner. The only way I have found to fix this is
to run the following quick script when my machine boots up:
#!/usr/bin/sh # Silly hack so that regular user can access the scanner chmod 777 -R /proc/bus/usb
I did some Amanda configuration for my client this afternoon.