I recently acquired a vintage (2006?) Minolta Elite 5400 II scanner, and – according to the VueScan support info, I needed to ”set up libusb device protections”..\u00a0\u00a0 That info included a link to a somewhat ancient SANE USB support page – last changed in 2003!..<\/p>\n
That rang a bell, and I guessed that I had to mess about with good old UDEV again, after many years..<\/p>\n
Sure enough, the scanner showed up ok:<\/p>\n
# lsusb |grep Minolta<\/strong><\/span>\r\nBus 001 Device 019: ID 132b:0012 Konica Minolta Dimage Scan Elite 5400 II (2892)<\/strong><\/span><\/pre>\n– but would only work if I ran the scanner utility as ‘root’…<\/p>\n
I had some notes on making an Epson scanner work, from 2008, but that was somewhat out-of-date – mentioning the use of good old usbfs<\/em> etc etc..<\/p>\nAs usual, there is a lot of searchable information on this topic, but much of it is tragically out-of-date – and some is just inaccurate speculation..<\/p>\n
The solution is actually fairly simple, these days..<\/p>\n
On my Fedora 23 system, I just had to add a ‘.rules’ file under the \/etc\/udev\/rules.d<\/span><\/strong> directory (not the one at \/lib\/udev\/rules.d<\/span>!)<\/p>\nI created a text file ‘50-scanner.rules<\/span><\/strong>‘ with the following contents, including the vendor<\/strong> and product<\/strong> ids from the # lsusb<\/strong><\/span> output:<\/p>\n# Minolta Dimage 5400 II (added Feb 2016. RG)<\/span><\/strong>\r\nATTRS{idVendor}==\"132b\", ATTRS{idProduct}==\"0012\", ENV{libsane_matched}=\"yes\", GROUP=\"users\", MODE=\"0660\"<\/span><\/strong><\/pre>\nTo save time, I just added myself to the ‘users<\/em>‘ group.. You could create a new ‘scanners<\/em>‘ group and add yourself to it, and change the GROUP= parameter accordingly…<\/p>\nJust power-cycle the scanner, and everything should work correctly..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Scan output quality is excellent… \u00a0 Shame they stopped production some years back…<\/p>\n
Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 February 19, 2016.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I recently acquired a vintage (2006?) Minolta Elite 5400 II scanner, and – according to the VueScan support info, I needed to ”set up libusb device protections”..\u00a0\u00a0 That info included a link to a somewhat ancient SANE USB support page – last changed in 2003!.. That rang a bell, and I guessed that I had to mess …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1238,11,15,19,20,350],"tags":[161,1273,1272,1271,1175,376,383],"class_list":["post-1659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fix","category-hacks","category-linux-2","category-opinion","category-performance-2","category-success","tag-fix","tag-minolta-5400-ii","tag-rules","tag-scanner","tag-success","tag-udev","tag-usb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1659"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1661,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions\/1661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}