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Subject: Re: thanks a lot
From: Gerhard Jaeger
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 19:14:04 +0100

On Monday 01 March 2004 12:11, erasmo perez wrote:
> hi
>
> thanks to the flag hint to the configuration of the sane-backends, i was
> able to run scanimage with direct access using the 0x378 mem address
>
> using setuid root i could run scanimage as a normal user
>
> now, i have the best of both worlds (mind you a little security danger)

That's why I suggest first to install libieee1284 and use the ppdev
device for accessing the parallel-port instead of direct I/O...

Ciao,
  Gerhard