I had similar problems with Mandrake 8.1 and my scanner (Epson Perfection 1200 USB); I had it runing fine in 8.0 but the installation was to be done by hand.
After testing the new scanner-drake (you1 need to update drakxtools, ldetect and drakxtools-newt, for example from cooker) and the package recognized my scanner but still it didn't run. After consulting with the scanner-drake author in the mandrake team we thought that the problem was with devs, that it seems is not fully supported in the kernel that came with 8.1; so I dissable devs (I must say that I had also problems with cdroms due to the use of devs) adding in the lilo config append line: devs=nomount; I restarted the system and when I ran scanner-drake the scanner was detected and started to work. Hope this could help you. Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain)
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