Henning, I'm an admirer of 'sane-troubleshoot'. Working through it helped me isolate and work through problems to the point where sane-find-scanner and scanimage -L work - as root and user - and I can 'scanimage>image.pnm' successfully ... but xsane tells me 'no devices available'.
I also installed hotplug which gives user privileges when the plug goes in. One thing I'm not sure of is the correct place to put the epson backend directory. 'sane-troubleshoot' told me that the previous backend was old so I downloaded the latest one from http://www.khk.net/sane untarred it in /home/adam and moved it to /usr/local/lib/backend but 'sane-troubleshoot' only found the one in /etc/sane.d/dll.conf and could not find the scanner (which it had before I 'updated' the backend). I won't attach the large log unless you request it. Adam Bogacki, [email protected]
