[arch-general] Scanner only works as root

[Allan McRae]

Antonio de la Rosa wrote:
> Renan Birck escribió:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have an HP Photosmart C3180 all-in-one (printer/scanner/copier).
>> Installed cups, hplip, sane.
>>
>> Printing works. Scanning, however, only works as root, otherwise xsane
>> says that there are no devices.
>>
>> But if I chmod 777 -R /dev/bus/usb/* it works for my current user;
>> therefore I deduce it is a permission problem. This looks like an udev
>> problem, however my udev knowledge is next to null.
>>
>> What steps could I take to solve this problem? I would like to get rid
>> of this ugly hack.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>     
> Do you have your user in scanner group?
>
>
>   
I have the same problem with HP Deskjet F380 All-in-one.  Adding myself 
to the scanner group didn't help.
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=43356

Allan