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Subject: Re: problem with Plustek 9636T/12000T parallel port scanner
From: Gerhard Jaeger
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 16:40:13 +0200

On Thursday 01 July 2004 16:31, Jacques Montier wrote:
> Gerhard Jaeger a écrit :
> > On Thursday 01 July 2004 16:22, you wrote:
> >>Gerhard Jaeger a écrit :
> >>>On Thursday 01 July 2004 16:07, Jacques Montier wrote:
> >>>>Here it is :
> >>>>
> >>>>I noticed that it worked fine as root, not as user..
> >>>>May be is it a problem of permission...
> >>>
> >>>Hmmpf, yes of course, please set the permissions of /dev/parport0
> >>>correctly, I use:
> >>>crw-rw-rw-    1 root     root      99,   0 2003-03-14 14:08
> >>> /dev/parport0
> >>
> >>Well  i have no /dev/parport0 file...
> >
> > Hmmm, are you using devfs? Try (as root):
> > find / -name "parport0"
> >
> > Ciao,
> >   Gerhard
>
> I found
>   /proc/sys/dev/parport/parport0

That's not what I'm looking for :-(
What kernel are you using? On 2.4, try:
mknod --mode=0666 /dev/parport0 c 99 0

This will create the node, make sure, that ppdev is loaded...

Ciao,
  Gerhard