hello people

starting with xandros 4.5 oce has got me stumped! i have more or less the same issues as these two posts

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...urrent-594071/
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...urrent-638690/

but none of the solutions helped me out at all!

some info

scanimage as user - device busy
scanimage as root - all is cool

as in the above posts the udev entry permissions are correct, but the low-level usb permissions are root root! manual chgrp every boot not an option im afraid.

uname -r = 2.6.24-smp

files in udev (these are different to the above posts, causing much confusion)

.:
alsa-utils.rules
hdparm.rules
ifplugd.rules
iscd-dvd
libgphoto2.rules
libnjb.rules
libsane.rules
links.conf
pcmcia.rules
rules.d
udev.conf
xserver-xorg-input-wacom.rules

./rules.d:
025_libgphoto2.rules
025_libsane.rules
030_ifplugd.rules
11-hplj10xx.rules
40-isdn.rules
40-libxandroshardware.rules
50-xandros-udev.rules
85-pcmcia.rules
99-camera.rules
99-ipod.rules
libnjb.rules
z60_alsa-utils.rules
z60_hdparm.rules
z60_xserver-xorg-input-wacom.rules

would really appreciate any advice that you can offer, and happy to give you any further info needed.

thanks in advance.

*** bump ***

can someone suggest anything at all please? i know that similar issues have been addressed and solved, but the solutions dont seem to apply to xandros...

can i offer any more info, or post in a different section?

would appreciate any help at all, thanks

nobody at this friendly, massive linux community can help with the debian based xandros and nobody has any info or advice regarding udev and its documented permissions issues (granted, with other distros) or how to overcome them?

nobody?

im not a total newb but i am still trying to learn. i dont really want just a solution, but anything that can help me work through the problem.

i have also tried to contribute when and where i can with my limited knowledge...

im a bit disappointed