[SOLVED] scanner not recognised

peter@mesh:~$ 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=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x010b [Perfection1240]) 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.
peter@mesh:~$ scanimage -L
device `v4l:/dev/video0' is a Noname BT878 video (Hauppauge (bt878)) virtual device
peter@mesh:~$ lsusb
Bus 005 Device 003: ID 04b8:010b Seiko Epson Corp. Perfection 1240
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 05e3:0605 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB 2.0 Hub [ednet]
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Scanner is recognised by sane-find-scanner but not by scanimage -L. I am in the scanner group.
It was working under other distros and strangely it works on w2k in virtualbox.
Maybe a permissions issue? Any ideas?
Last edited by ploub (2008-02-24 12:47:53)

Permissions are correct:
/peter@mesh:~$ ls -lR /dev/bus/usb
dev/bus/usb/005:
total 0
crw-rw-r-- 1 root root 189, 512 2008-02-24 08:15 001
crw-rw-r-- 1 root root 189, 513 2008-02-24 08:15 002
crw-rw-r-- 1 root scanner 189, 514 2008-02-24 10:01 003
Changing permissions in /proc doesn't help either:
peter@mesh:~$ chmod a+rw /proc/bus/usb/005/003
sudo scanimage -L still only picks up the tv card. Any other ideas? Thanks!

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