I'm new to Ubuntu, so haven't tried using my LIDE50 with any release
prior to Karmic.  I have similar results to jhoyne, with additional
error text:

sane-find-scanner output:
found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x2213 [CanoScan], 
chip=GL841) at libusb:001:007

scanimage -L output:
WARNING: Unhandled message: interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable, 
path=/, member=Introspect
device `genesys:libusb:001:007' is a Canon LiDE 35/40/50 flatbed scanner

A couple of things I've tried without success:

1) I read that there may be a problem with Karmic suspending USB to save
power; the suggested fix was to install scanbuttond to provide regular
'keep alive' activity and prevent the USB from being suspended.
Installed and run, no difference.

2) I've seen several suggestions relating to the mode assigned to the device in 
config files; the common theme seems to be to replace mode=664 with mode=0666 
to allow the device to be run by non-root users.  The file most often suggested 
is
/etc/udev/rules.d/45-libsane.rules 
which doesn't (or didn't) exist.  I found a link to a copy of this file at 
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=5945
Installed it, edited the entry for the LIDE 50 to show mode=0666, and rebooted. 
 No change.
I also found a similar reference to another config file
/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules
where I changed the mode of the USB subsystem to '0666' at point # libusb 
device nodes.  No change.
I also tried running xsane as root just to rule out any permissions problems. 
Failed with the same error.

Finally, I found a hint at how to get a debug file from Xsane and ran
the following:

SANE_DEBUG_GENESYS=255 xsane 2>lide50.log

which generated the following error info at a point within the log file:

[genesys] sanei_genesys_read_data_from_scanner: timeout, buffer does not get 
filled
[genesys] genesys_flatbed_calibration: offset calibration failed: Error during 
device I/O
[genesys] genesys_start_scan: failed to do flatbed calibration: Error during 
device I/O


I guess that it just doesn't want to work!  Any ideas?

Mike

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canoscan lide 50 worked under jaunty but not under karmic
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/492039
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