Comment 32 for bug 1728012

The Brother MFC-1910W printer-fax-scanner, brscan4 based, does not work with the symlink trick, the scanner is detected by sane-find-scanner, but is not listed by scanimage -l, and will only work after enabling the root account and issuing the 'su root' and 'xsane' commands in a terminal; a simple sudo xsane won't work. Although it seems to me a permission issue, creating appropriate (to the best of my knowledge!) udev rules files in the /etc/udev/rules.d directory and/or in /lib/udev/rules.d directory has no positive outcome, nor editing the the /lib/udev/rules.d/60-libsane1.rules file; my attempts were using the lines

## Brother MFC-1910W
ATTRS{idVendor}=="04f9", ATTRS{idProduct}=="035d", MODE="0666", GROUP="scanner", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes"

with several flavours of the MODE= option (0660 0666 0664 0777 and the like).
Again: if only libsane1 will also look for sane backends in the "legacy" locations other than the new ones perhaps this insane mess would be sorted out.