aft:/home/dr# sane-find-scanner -q found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x221c [CanoScan], chip=GL841) at libusb:001:002 aft:/home/dr# su dr dr@aft:~$ sane-find-scanner -q found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9, product=0x221c, chip=GL841?) at libusb:001:002 dr@aft:~$ id uid=1001(dr) gid=513(Domain Users) groups=46(plugdev),110(scanner),111(saned),513(Domain Users) dr@aft:~$ ls -l /proc/bus/usb/001/002 -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 57 2006-07-02 17:26 /proc/bus/usb/001/002 dr@aft:~$ scanimage --version scanimage (sane-backends) 1.0.17; backend version 1.0.17 dr@aft:~$ uname -a Linux aft 2.6.15-1-k7 #2 Mon Mar 6 15:42:39 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux