Yesterday I upgraded to sane 1.0.12 and xsane 0.92. Experienced seg faults when invoking xsane. I commented out "epson" in dll.conf and added "epkowa". This forced sane to use the Epson Kowa backend libsane-epkowa. Seg faults ceased. The Epson Kowa backend to sane works great. You might try and see if they will allow it to be distributed with sane. It is GPL or an approved variant I believe.
Running RH 8.0 with Kernal 2.4.18-17.8.0 and gcc 3.2.2 to compile all source (sane, xsane and Epson Kowa source). Regards, Terry Boldt
