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helloSystem Live and installation ISO
https://github.com/helloSystem/
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Make USB scanners "just work" #325

Open probonopd opened 2 years ago

probonopd commented 2 years ago

E.g., ID 04a9:221c Canon, Inc. CanoScan LiDE 60 is known to work with Xsane on Linux.

But on helloSystem we only get

image

Why?

These things need to work without the user having to "fiddle around".

probonopd commented 2 years ago

When running xsane as root:

image

So we have

  1. A permissions issue (how to fix?)
  2. Some other issue