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Check if your scanner can be found in
/etc/udev/rules.d/45-libsane.rules
If not add an entry like the others in there This does not take effect until after a reboot.
To get the idVendor and idProduct run lsusb and you may get something like

Bus 001 Device 003: ID 04f9:0182 Brother Industries, Ltd

It's easy to see where to put what in the line above

Edit - I suddenly see that the subject line has "broken English"
Edited in this post

This no longer works with Elyssa - the file /etc/udev/rules.d/45-libsane.rules no longer exists

Seems like Hardy is providing libsane 1.0.19.1ubuntu3 which no longer contains the 45-linsane.rules file. libsane 1.0.18.1ubuntu3 seems the last package containing the file.

So we have to find a new way to fix this - but there are many more scanners (including this one) in SANE now
According to this blog
http://www.shallowsky.com/blog/linux/sc ... hardy.html
scanners are moved from udev to hal, which does not work for a lot of people.
All you have to do is to copy your Daryna/Gutsy /etc/udev/rules.d/45-libsane.rules to Elyssa/Hardy
Or - of course - make a new /etc/udev/rules.d/45-libsane.rules in Elyssa

Become root - right click in the destination folder > Open as root
Or

default install on Mint actually gives you NO clues at all as to whether your scanner is installed and working or not.
scanner has no config icon in Control Center, and Gimp showed nothing under the "acquire " dialog.
There's also no indication or instruction that you have to install XSane to use your scanner.

Hey - you have a point
It's been there right in front of my eyes and I have not thought of it
Let's hope there's time for Clem to make something nice for Felicia

Some more info
Brother has released a workaround for their scanners, but I have a feeling this may work for any scanner that can only be used in root.
http://solutions.brother.com/linux/sol/ ... faq.html#9
If that does not help here is a link for a /etc/udev/rules.d/45-libsane.rule from Gutsy
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14664165/45-libsane.rules

was it fixed in Felicia ?.

I have a Brother scanner working - I realise I should have made a follow up. This will come later - no time now

My Canon scanner is collecting dust thanks to the fact that Canon doesn't think that 30 million Linux users are not important...

hotweiss wrote:My Canon scanner is collecting dust thanks to the fact that Canon doesn't think that 30 million Linux users are not important...

One not too many

Pierre wrote:was it fixed in Felicia ?.

I don't think you need to use a workaround in Felicia
I just installed the drivers and made a change to /etc/udev/rules.d/40-basic-permissions.rules
The lines for USB should (probably) be changed to

# USB devices (usbfs replacement)
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", MODE="0666"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb_device", MODE="0666"

They are 0664 by default, denying write for "the world"

if have problem with flegita.
i can go in the flegita, but if i press scan. directly stop the application. why? what i'm missing? but i can use scanimage to scan my work.

As long as you can scan you're fine
It seems that flegita does not use USB the right way and the result is a segfault (which means "illegal memory use")

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/164122

is that any upgrade patch to flegita? and is that new version really is 0.6?

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-scan/0.6/

is that links for upgrade flegita new version?

Seems to be the latest version
You have to compile it - not user friendly and if you do remember to install build essential first
There should be a read me in the tarball

Husse wrote:Seems to be the latest version
You have to compile it - not user friendly and if you do remember to install build essential first
There should be a read me in the tarball

can youu compile it become deb files? and make it easy to mintupdate?

Hamrick VueScan supports many, many scanners (including the two I have, Epson and Canon) and comes in versions for Linux, MacOS and Windows. It's not free, but worth what it costs.

I see that I had not added the solution for Gloria as I thought I had
This is taken from the Brother support site

1. Open "/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules" file.
2. Edit "0664" to "0666" in "libusb device nodes" section.

Before the edit---------------------------------

# libusb device nodes
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", ... , MODE="0664"


After the edit----------------------------------

# libusb device nodes
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", ... , MODE="0666"


3. Restart the OS.

This provides read and write for "all"
I have seen someone recommend 0660 for this - I don't think it's right but worth a try if you cant get it to work

My HP 5530C Scanjet doesn't work (has never worked under Linux) I'll eventually be replacing it as the glass has gone a bit foggy. What would be a good modern replacement that will work with Linux without messing about.

Cheers,
Rob

I would say HP or Brother